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Throughout history, empires and dynasties have been made through violence. Radical political change has been made possible through vioence. The American dream would not exist if the revolutionaries had eschewed violence. The Tsar would still rule Russia and France would be a monarchy. Mao came to power through violence as did the KMT before him. The Romans, the Persians, the Greeks, Incas and Aztecs all came in violence and departed in violence.
Curiously, the Nazis came to power in Germany through the ballot box but were only removed with violence.
Violence is therefore, clearly, a perfectly good way of deciding whether a fixed bike is better than a geared one or not.