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To: PeterPrinciple

Having a capacity for violence is the best reason for preferring peace - and for ending any conflict decisively and in most cases permanently whenever others initiate violence or otherwise present no acceptable alternative.


48 posted on 01/18/2017 11:32:07 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Pollster1

And yet the situation remains static. As in Westboro Baptist confrontations, the bikers can keep a problem from getting worse. But can they take the next step and make it better? That would mean throwing away I-don’t-care attitudes, however. It would require being willing to see what it is that made the enemy what it was, and separating the fundamentally wrong from the misguided.

Nobody is truly anarchist. Human nature rebels against that. What actually happens is not anarchy but alternative-archy. To prevent better alternatives to the alternatives is the way out of the dilemma.


51 posted on 01/18/2017 12:04:41 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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