Should I Become more Pro-War?

[David Horn]

(02-09-2021, 03:03 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(02-09-2021, 02:51 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I'm wondering, right now. Must freedom always be attained with blood? The cost of freedom is high, but Americans have always paid it, said JFK.

I have long said that non violence works better in democracies, where leaders have some sense of conscience, where the vote hangs heavily on those that ignore the people.  The autocracies, it works less well.  You look at places like Russia and China and you wonder what could crush an autocracy.  I don't see it ending always the same way.  Sometimes too many people protest to arrest.  Sometimes you have to turn to revolution.  Sometimes, like the old Soviet Union or recently with the floods and coal buying fiasco in China, you get yourself in financial trouble trying to compete financially with the west.

But I am in no hurry.

Note that Gandhi made a similar point about his methods of achieving independence for India.  He argued that it worked because, at heart, the British were a fair and decent people.  He said he would never have used those methods with the Nazis.