State-mandated violence enjoys popular support when framed as common-good

Evidence

Organizationally mandated violence is not perceived as socially deviant (or illegal) but rather popularly supported and delivered in the name of the common good. Organizationally mandated violence is mobilized to uproot what it sees and construes as morally deviant, transgressive behaviours. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 615

Related

• States that promote violence must escalate coercion to maintain rule (similarity 0.84)
• Violence is often the best available action for systematically disadvantaged groups (similarity 0.79)