Preserving seeks to secure the life that already is; safeguarding secures and reproduces the conditions of becoming, of living, of futurity, where the content of that life, that living, can be neither prescribed nor predicted, and where self-determination emerges as a potential.

— Judith Butler The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind (2020)

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