Thermite Wielding Troll
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- Jul 22, 2005
Wow, it's amazing to see how many are engaging the unipolar thinking here.
Violence is always a detestable response, eh?
So, if a guy comes at me with a knife for no reason other than to practice carving someone up, it's detestable for me to kick his knee out to interrupt him?
How about if I see a guy running towards a school bus with a primed grenade in either hand 40 feet away from me, and I happen to have a rifle in my hands? Would it be detestable to drop his ass?
Ok, that's just violence vs. violence. How about this:
I'm in a village with a handful of other people. Me and my fellows raise crops, but the ground is nutrient poor and so we can't get much to grow no matter how hard we work. Just outside of our village are a group who don't like working to raise crops, they just raid ours at nightfall. They are physically larger and stronger and we could not manage to bind them if we did get a hold of them. Me and my fellows are going to starve because they won't work to add to the crop no matter what we say to try to convince them. So, we build a fence, and set up a sentry. The sentry warns us as they start breaching the fence. We all run out with staves we made, threatening to bash them. They try to push right past. We then beat them with our staves and chase them off into the wilderness.
Would that be acceptable?
Violence is always a detestable response, eh?
So, if a guy comes at me with a knife for no reason other than to practice carving someone up, it's detestable for me to kick his knee out to interrupt him?
How about if I see a guy running towards a school bus with a primed grenade in either hand 40 feet away from me, and I happen to have a rifle in my hands? Would it be detestable to drop his ass?
Ok, that's just violence vs. violence. How about this:
I'm in a village with a handful of other people. Me and my fellows raise crops, but the ground is nutrient poor and so we can't get much to grow no matter how hard we work. Just outside of our village are a group who don't like working to raise crops, they just raid ours at nightfall. They are physically larger and stronger and we could not manage to bind them if we did get a hold of them. Me and my fellows are going to starve because they won't work to add to the crop no matter what we say to try to convince them. So, we build a fence, and set up a sentry. The sentry warns us as they start breaching the fence. We all run out with staves we made, threatening to bash them. They try to push right past. We then beat them with our staves and chase them off into the wilderness.
Would that be acceptable?