02-05-2021, 09:22 PM
(02-05-2021, 12:34 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(02-04-2021, 06:25 PM)Einzige Wrote: Why is nonviolence to be preferred to violence?
Most people value life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Thus, if you can get these without violence, you do it. Sometimes violence is necessary, I have been saying for a while that non violence doesn't work so well in autocratic cultures. The leaders can just ignore the people. Sorta. Looking at Russia, you wonder. Looking at China, you wonder less.
How do you improve the culture when the leaders and elites do not show conscience? Violence is sometimes necessary?
But you avoid it if you can.
Agreed. And usually, violence generates more violence. Societies built on violence, typically live by violence. The new boss is pretty much the same as the old boss, in those societies. But it depends on the situation, and a matter of degree, and the principles involved. Violent outlaws and tyrants can't always be talked down.