In his Youtube biographical video on Max Stirner, Riggenbach comments that Stirner opposed state violence as legal and individual violence is dismissed and punished as criminal.
This reveals Stirner's anarchist leanings, and his anti-statist views. Like Stirner, the state declares war too often, and uses policing powers and judicial force too often against citizens leading to authoritarian and human rights abuses.
On the other hand, we remain free under ordered liberty and the rule of law, so the individual can only be violent in legal ways, and the state rightly uses limited, focuses coercion and violence along constitutional lines, and that is as it should be.
We cannot have total anarchy, lawlessness and the law of the jungle, pure freedom and pure anarchy, because the middle class will tire of it, and form lynch mobs, or put in power a dictator to restore needed security to protect life, property and contracts.
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