1.6.1 Society is therefore in a perpetual state of war. Coercion is necessary to create stability, but is also dangerous because it sows the seeds of its own destruction. History is a long attempt at social cohesion and justice, most of which have failed. To move forward, we must destroy kinds of power which cannot be made socially responsible, and developing types of power based in self-restraint. There is no one single solution to the problem of power, but many social strategies will be necessary to subdue it. Perpetual peace and brotherhood will probably never be achieved, but possible in approximation but never fully realized in history. The vision of peace must be kept alive. But this vision is one where there is enough peace and justice so coercion will be sufficiently non-violent.
NUT: While society has been in a state of perpetual war, to move toward a moral society we must destroy forms of power that cannot be made socially responsible and non-violent.
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