Saturday, January 19, 2013
Non Violence FTW!
With all the talk of gun control at deafening levels currently, I've run across a couple of articles that the more Utopian minded anti-gunners have put out. It's what they apparently dream of. The Non Violent Society. Answer violence with non violence. That was a key point in one article. Gandhi and Dr. King were held up as prime examples. Both of whom were violently assassinated by the way. Does it just never occur to these types that no matter how successful you are at getting a culture to embrace non violence, that their first meeting with violence is going end very badly for them? Every. Stinking. Time! I suspect they don't understand the basic nature of man or they'd give up those silly notions.
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Two statements come to mind: I read somewhere that "if Gandhi had met the Nazis with non-violence, his bloated corpse would have washed up on the banks of the Ganges shortly thereafter."
ReplyDeleteAnd, "Conservatives tend to see things as they are, and work to better them, whereas liberals wish everyone else would go along with the liberals' dreams of utopia - and are willing to kill them if they don't cooperate."
I also think that they don't understand that just because someone is willing to use violence to stop or prevent violence, that does not mean that person likes it, or is in favor of it in any way. I hate violence but I know it will serve me when needed.
ReplyDeleteEven Hollywood has shown this effect in film.
ReplyDeleteDemolition man is a prime example. However the fat that they had achieved even the facade of utopia is a crock and a dream.
Didn't MLK turn to non-violence only after he had attracted enough publicity to make his stance on non-violent resistance work?
ReplyDeleteGhandi also stated that the British disarmament of India was one of the worst things they did. So, it appears both of them recognized when violence was appropriate and determined for their particular circumstances it wasn't.
But a woman trying non-violent resistance on a rapist in the middle of the night, a father trying to protect his family from a thug in their house, or someone trying to stop a mass murder -- those haven't had much success in the past, have they?
Force wins every time there is a will to use it.
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