You can't enforce peace without violence. This makes pacifism inherently stupid.
Every situation can escalate to violence. If you eschew it yourself, you've managed to do nothing but making the escalation easier against you.
>every law and government body uses violence to enforce the law
Yeah, but surely you must know that just because the government does something, that doesn't make it right.
And not only war, but what comes afterwards. In a way, the choice between defensive war and surrender is not a choice between violence and non-violence, but a choice between brief intense violence or extended suffering of unknown quantity or quality, because occupiers rarely are occupying anything just to let everything go on normally.
>But in 1835, members of the Māori tribes Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga, living in what is now Wellington, New Zealand, decided to migrate to the Chatham Islands. Around 500 men, women, and children arrived on the shore, determined to take the land they found there through a practice called “walking the land,” where they moved across the island and settled wherever they liked. Moriori who disagreed or attempted to retain their districts were summarily slaughtered. King describes how about 1,000 Moriori gathered to discuss what they should do. This invasion was different to previous arrivals, who had come, taken resources, and then left again. Some younger men argued that Nunuku’s law was designed to protect them from one another, and did not apply to those who were not Moriori. They needed to fight back, they said, or risk certain death. Older chiefs disagreed. Nunuku’s law was a moral imperative. Disobeying it would compromise their mana, a complicated and multifaceted term comprising integrity, prestige, and strength. The Moriori resolved not to fight. The Māori, King writes, seem to have decided at roughly the same time that a pre-emptive strike was necessary. Shortly afterwards, hundreds of Moriori were slain by Māori. They did not fight back. “They commenced to kill us like sheep,” one survivor said later, “wherever we were found.” At least 220 men and women were killed, and many more children. Recordings of a council of Moriori elders from 1862 lists all adult Moriori alive on that day in 1835. One cross meant they had died or been killed; two crosses meant they had been cooked and eaten, a Māori custom common to land disputes on the mainland. Those who had not been killed were enslaved, separated from their families, and prohibited from marrying. Many died of illness, overwork, or kongenge, meaning dispiritedness or despair.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/moriori-people-genocide-history-chatham-islands
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You can't enforce peace without violence. This makes pacifism inherently stupid.
Every situation can escalate to violence. If you eschew it yourself, you've managed to do nothing but making the escalation easier against you.
The only winning move is not to play.
Because every law and government body uses violence to enforce the law
We haven't moved far enough apart from our Black person ancestors crushing each other heads with rocks
>every law and government body uses violence to enforce the law
Yeah, but surely you must know that just because the government does something, that doesn't make it right.
What is right to you?
What do you mean?
Some things are worth fighting for.
I'd like to be and I'm sure if everyone was, we'd live in a better world.
But "peace at all costs" just leads to warmongers doing war with impunity
And not only war, but what comes afterwards. In a way, the choice between defensive war and surrender is not a choice between violence and non-violence, but a choice between brief intense violence or extended suffering of unknown quantity or quality, because occupiers rarely are occupying anything just to let everything go on normally.
Framing the choice as between defensive war and surrender is a false dichotomy. One can engage in nonviolent resistance against an occupying force.
>But in 1835, members of the Māori tribes Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Mutunga, living in what is now Wellington, New Zealand, decided to migrate to the Chatham Islands. Around 500 men, women, and children arrived on the shore, determined to take the land they found there through a practice called “walking the land,” where they moved across the island and settled wherever they liked. Moriori who disagreed or attempted to retain their districts were summarily slaughtered. King describes how about 1,000 Moriori gathered to discuss what they should do. This invasion was different to previous arrivals, who had come, taken resources, and then left again. Some younger men argued that Nunuku’s law was designed to protect them from one another, and did not apply to those who were not Moriori. They needed to fight back, they said, or risk certain death. Older chiefs disagreed. Nunuku’s law was a moral imperative. Disobeying it would compromise their mana, a complicated and multifaceted term comprising integrity, prestige, and strength. The Moriori resolved not to fight. The Māori, King writes, seem to have decided at roughly the same time that a pre-emptive strike was necessary. Shortly afterwards, hundreds of Moriori were slain by Māori. They did not fight back. “They commenced to kill us like sheep,” one survivor said later, “wherever we were found.” At least 220 men and women were killed, and many more children. Recordings of a council of Moriori elders from 1862 lists all adult Moriori alive on that day in 1835. One cross meant they had died or been killed; two crosses meant they had been cooked and eaten, a Māori custom common to land disputes on the mainland. Those who had not been killed were enslaved, separated from their families, and prohibited from marrying. Many died of illness, overwork, or kongenge, meaning dispiritedness or despair.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/moriori-people-genocide-history-chatham-islands
I have literally started and directed riots, casually unplanned, drunk
get on my level, pro-tip: you can't
Because one day I will show those Black folk who cucked me.
When you try to dunk in chuds and expose your own fetish
Yikes
Its against my religion
Because I am too busy pacifying your mom with my bbc.