Self-described peaceful states legitimate violence against rogues by deem both anomalous.

Evidence

States that take themselves as reasonable, peaceful and peace-loving consider those states seen as racial rogues to be anomalies. It follows that the violence required to bring them into line or to keep them at bay must be anomalous too. It is this doubled sense of anomaly that undertakes to legitimate the violence necessary to rogue control. That racial rogues are supposedly exceptional requires exceptional grounds – extended states of exception – to reign them in or wall them off so as to protect the sacredness of the civilized, of civilization itself, as Pandey insightfully puts it. And that the violence necessary to reign them in is exercised only in the limit cases, because supposedly all other reasonable alternatives have been exhausted or are destined to failure, renders violence in this instance necessary, regrettable, caused by the roguish behavior to begin with. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1830

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The doubling of anomaly — the rogue is anomalous and the violence against it is anomalous — works as a self-sealing legitimation logic worth sitting with. It explains how states can be sincere in claiming peace while waging war.