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Complicated.....it depends upon who, when, where, & how.How does violence against violence solve a problem?
It doesn't; however the argument in favor is below:How does violence against violence solve a problem?
It doesn't.How does violence against violence solve a problem?
Hmmm.....an amazingly criminal view.
Seditious. Rebellious. Revolutionary... and yeah criminal.Hmmm.....an amazingly criminal view.
How does violence against violence solve a problem?
Now this hurt my feelingsI don't agree with anyone simply saying "it doesn't." This isn't accurate or representative of some circumstances we actually experience in reality at all.
Rebellion & revolution suggest objectives political rather than mere thievery.Seditious. Rebellious. Revolutionary... and yeah criminal.
It doesn't; however the argument in favor is below:
"Looting is extremely dangerous to the rich (and most white people) because it reveals, with an immediacy that has to be moralized away, that the idea of private property is just that: an idea, a tenuous and contingent structure of consent, backed up by the lethal force of the state. When rioters take territory and loot, they are revealing precisely how, in a space without cops, property relations can be destroyed and things can be had for free.
Source: In Defense of Looting (emphasis mine)
edit: I put the link in a spoiler due to its controversial nature.
Hmmm. Reminds me of privateers, the legal, patriotic pirates.It doesn't; however the argument in favor is below:
"Looting is extremely dangerous to the rich (and most white people) because it reveals, with an immediacy that has to be moralized away, that the idea of private property is just that: an idea, a tenuous and contingent structure of consent, backed up by the lethal force of the state. When rioters take territory and loot, they are revealing precisely how, in a space without cops, property relations can be destroyed and things can be had for free.
Source: In Defense of Looting (emphasis mine)
edit: I put the link in a spoiler due to its controversial nature.
an eye for an eye?We should have ''counter-action''.
How does violence against violence solve a problem?
black belt here!I don't agree with anyone simply saying "it doesn't." This isn't accurate or representative of some circumstances we actually experience in reality at all.
When I was a kid I was bullied. There was a set of kids who would get off the bus at my stop and call me names, push me, throw things at me, etc. Well, one day, they kept egging one of them on to fight me, but he was a little guy, and I was larger, and the little guy didn't want to get involved, and neither did I, so nothing happened. Well, this little guy had a friend who felt that his inability to fight me was some kind of insult to their friendship, so he decided to fight me himself the next day. I wanted no part of it, but damned if I was just going to take the licks and crawl off somewhere to lick my wounds later. So I fought back. At one point he had me down on my back and was coming at me, and I kicked up off the ground and hit him hard in the chest and he bowled over. In another moment I had a handful of his hair a was beating on his head repeatedly. The fight dispersed when a neighbor came out from their house and scared all the others off. The kid went around telling everyone how he "won" the fight. But I obviously knew better - I had gotten some good, solid violence of my own in there and kept it fairly even, and he knew it. Which is why he never tried it again - and indeed stopped bullying me altogether. They all did.
Violence begets violence. Sometimes you have show someone that if they are willing to approach you with violence, then you are taking that as license to do the same. Just look at any interaction of violence in the animal kingdom. Does one of the animals EVER approach the situation in "peaceful protest?" Not that I know of or have seen. Many seem to think we are so much different - but our base understanding and mentality remains there, and understands that when someone reacts to our violence with more in return than we care to take, the best course is to back down. You can get people to back down. You can. To say "it doesn't work" is ridiculous, foolish even.
How does violence against violence solve a problem?
The use of the Old Testament by modern society scares me actually.an eye for an eye?