O direito de o Estado matar

Abstract

The right of the State to kill is a question of the monopoly of legal violence by the State and intends to show how the political-philosophical thought works the idea that this violence can result on the right-power of taking away the life of a human being; as an individual subjected to a sovereign policy. We start reporting the scientific knowledge and philosophic comprehension that the man has over life and death, as well as how the State should define those horizons; taking away, in great part, our possibility as individuals to establish the limits of our own existence. It also shows the side of the State, exposing the way the political theory and philosophical thought understand it, relating also other issues like liberty, sovereignty, power, authority and domination. It discuss, in the end, if the State has the right to kill, considering his own nature of violence present on the genesis of the Law out of which it merges or if there is a natural right to life, a sacredness that belongs to the human life, that should impose over any violence against mankind. It concludes proposing that if there is a right that belongs to the State, it s exactly the one to kill (legally). This right, even when not or rarely exercised, is potentially present and thus will always exist, at least, until the political society is built under this organization form. To question this right with the human life sacredness argument is to use the pure and simple mysticism against a peril that we can only combat with a constant promptness and using all available political ways