Counter-violence can prise open restrictive structures and create new possibilities

Evidence

Corporal punishment did not exist at Dom Sierot. This was not a rule, in the sense of a prohibition. It was a design consequence. In a community organized around the principle that children are rights-bearing individuals whose grievances deserve adjudication rather than suppression, the hit is not an available response — because the hit is, by definition, the suppression of a grievance rather than its adjudication. The system Korczak built at Dom Sierot did not need to prohibit corporal punishment, because the system had no place for it. — , The Rod and the Child, 8863 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Consensus does violence; invention arises from dissension. — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 95; States resisting economic control become targets of invasive violence. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1809; Violence can both close down and open up possibility, even at once. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1818 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Well-designed institutions can make violence structurally unavailable rather than merely prohibited. #complicates (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 8863