for: adjacency - rules of the game - violence, dangers of not playing by the rules of the game

adjacency between

• rules of the game
• violence

• When people cannot agree on the rules of the democratic game, we are just one step away from violence
• Homer-Dixon explores the relationship between environmental breakdown and violence in an earlier book
• If you believe your "opponent" is not playing by the rules of the game, then they are outside the moral ambit of your community, and you can justify violence
• Their status as a human being is no longer legitimate and they are dehumanized. Violence is now possible
• Whenever a group feels another group is not playing by the rules of the game, it is a very dangerous situation as violence can be justified on these grounds