Nonviolent Protest and Resistance Privileged

[paulpablo]

Not in my book, no.  Didn't I make that clear?  Pretty sure I made that clear..in fact, pretty sure you quoted me making that clear, so...?

If those people are so disenfranchised that they're willing to trade their lives to be heard..why would I change my position..just because I disagree with their cause?  


Hahaha, you still think we're having an argument, that's cute.

True enough. You can hate the protesters cause. But you can't fault there means if they are willing to die for it.

I didn't agree with John protesting against the pedestrianisation of the town centre but that suicide bomb attack against the school he did for the cause was something I can't fault him for.

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I want to do an update one the things that have been said so far in this thread.

 At the exact moment that a person is willing to trade their life for change....it's justifiable.  I may disagree with them, I might even hate them...but people don't forfeit their lives, their most prized possession, lightly, in my experience.

Which is basically the same as saying.  "That's a lovely dress Brenda.  I think it looks like dogshit but you spent a lot of money on it so it must be lovely inside your mind."

Then.........

You're being intentionally the dullard, aren't you?

When someone takes an action, ipso facto that actor has decided that they are justified....................... Nonsense. People do things they know aren't justified all the time.

  

And now finally you can't fault a protester's means if they're willing to die for their cause.  Apparently someone dying is an unfaultable method of protest.  Like the human catapult in southpark.