<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The thing that made us gentle was murder, applied... > The thing that made us gentle was murder, applied systematically, by committee. And the committee did not disband; it incorporated. The same coalitionary proactive violence that enabled self-domestication now enables the functioning of states. **Source:** [[articles/gamification/The Governing Principles of Gamification|The Governing Principles of Gamification]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->