[Karunamon]

>So all cops are 'agents of state violence'?

Yes. That's what law enforcement is by definition. Non compliance results in (eventual) violence, regardless of the severity of the crime.

P.S. Nice edit. Both "hacker" and "cop" carry some negative connotations without the qualifying "evil" in front of it.

[psgibbs]

I added 'evil' because particularly in this community, the connotation of 'hacker' is not necessarily negative. Many here esteem hackers as people who get things done by taking cleverly manipulating the system, or, alternatively, value results over process (I'd actually really appreciate a proper neutral definition of the term).

[pessimizer]

You're somehow conflating developer and lawbreaker in an effort to explain how cops are something other than agents of state violence. It's a strange argument.

[diminoten]

Non-compliance is a provocation of violence, so naturally it results in violence. It's the price we pay to have a society.

[_ak]

Nowadays police will apply force regardless, and retroactively claim that you didn't comply. Just look at all these videos of people being brutalized and beaten unconscious by police men shouting at them "stop resisting!"

So what you're basically saying is the price for having any policing is that we have to accept a morally and legally corrupt police force.

[Karunamon]

That depends entirely on the law being infringed. Society could do with a lot fewer of them as a whole.

[marssaxman]

There is nothing "natural" about it.

[sesqu]

It comes naturally to a lot of people.