@scheidegger almost everything the state does indirectly depends upon monopoly on legitimate violence, but a very small fraction is any kind of actual recourse to it. perhaps, if you are a sociopath, you wouldn’t pay your taxes were it not for “men with guns” who might eventually pursue you, but in fact taxation is an institution that involves very little violence of any kind (absent more-fashionable-on-the-left broadenings of the definition of violence).