12-21-2020, 03:27 PM
(12-21-2020, 01:24 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I wonder if non violence is an effective tool against autocratic governments. They just blatantly ignore the will of the people. Many of the things Marzouki mentions dance around that.
Gandhi was interviewed about that very thing: would he have used that tactic to resist the Nazis? He argued that there has to be a layer of basic decency for non-violence to work. If there is none, the non-violent will be crushed long before any positive results can emerge.
Not definitive, but certainly weighty.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.
