The Deadly Lie of Pacifism: How physical and psychological disarmament encourages violence

American Chronicle ^ | 10/16/06 | Jeff Knox

[Rembrandt_fan]

My son is twelve-year-old state Golden Gloves champion. As a result, every misfit kid in his middle school with a chip on his shoulder or with something to prove tries to show how brave he is by provoking my boy--never touching, mind you, or doing anything that might actually result in anything physical, but it strains Jacob's patience to the breaking point. My son is under strict orders to take it, do nothing, let it go--unless and until the kid lays hands on him. After that, Jakey gets to defend himself--but even then, only to the extent that the other kid leaves him alone. (I guess the other kid lying there, battered and bleeding, constitutes leaving him alone.) In any event, no matter what the school does or says, if my son adheres to the policy that my ex-wife and I have established, he's good to go.

Pacifism only works as long as one's opponent respects the concept. Gandhi would never have tried a nonviolent approach against Hitler, for example.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

"Pacifism" IS about self-defense - self-defense of the school against LAWSUITS. Schools are NEVER NEVER NEVER going to encourage self-defense in students because if someone gets hurt or the self-defense is "disportionate", the school would be sued for millions. Of course they can't come out and tell your kids that they are teaching something bad for them. They have to lie and subvert your kid's moral philosophy for their own protection. It is up to YOU as a parent to tell your kid it is a bunch of bull and why the school feeds it to them. And then you have to tell your kid to deny you told them that so YOU don't get sued!

P.S. You METE out punishment, not "meet".

[silver charm]

"Pacifism only works as long as one's opponent respects the concept. Gandhi would never have tried a nonviolent approach against Hitler, for example."

I read in an essay about Ghandi, that as England was preparing for an attempted German invasion, he (Ghandi) wrote to the British people and advised them to be absolutely passive and non resistant to Hitlers aggression. Ghandi reasoned that if enough Brits were slaughtered in the streets and homes that the Nazi's would feel remorse and shame at their brutality and because of their new found guilt would stop being violent forever more.

Sounds kinda like all the moonbat kooks today. Except that they all want to kill the POTUS (violently if possible) to promote world peace.

[EdReform]

The Deadly Lie of Pacifism: How physical and psychological disarmament encourages violence

See also: Pacifism: The Ultimate Immorality (This is SENSATIONAL!!!)

[Shooter 2.5]

Those who go unarmed in Paradise must be sure that's where they are. Jeff Cooper

[222BBB]

How true!
Weakness only invites Aggression.
The pacifism taught in schools doesn't work.
Our children were home schooled. My youngest entered public school at middle-school, wherein the school bully figured that he was an opportune target and gut-punched him. My son decked him and broke his jaw (I don't condone the jaw-breaking, but if you pick a fight, we taught him to finish it!) The school expelled them both. It did stop the bullying. However, it feels like Wild-Wild-West. Afterwards, everyone wanted to challenge him to see if they could best him. Where is the happy medium?