[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.

[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.