There's a reason Ender's Game is on the reading lists at a couple of the military academies. The Ender defense is basically this: when you are being threatened, take your enemy out in such a way that the enemy can never again be a threat. In the book, he killed two other children who attacked him. It's a personal application of the old Machiavellian principle,
Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.These feral gangs are becoming such a problem that I would say such a solution is viable. Only fear of death will stop them, only death will keep them from coming after the victims in reprisal for snitching or attempting to defend themselves.
Ender’s game is fantasy, and I’m against Machiavellian “Principles”, because those too were fantasies, no different than Marx’s theory of ruling by despotism. Indulged fantasies, dreaming when reality calls, bring on a lot of havoc, chaos, and misery.
A few days ago I called Machiavelli’s approach solving a small problem by introducing a bigger one.
Study William Tecumseh Sherman, or George Washington. Study Samson and why he stole clothing and why that worked. And if you want to deal with a street mob, first take some walks in their territory and learn about them.
Like hornets can be observed without drawing a swarm of them you can go and observe reality.