On Violence

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Doing grand, thank you.


This is utter nonsense and shows an ignorance of the historical record. Violence, properly executed and controlled, is a phenomenally effective means of achieving power, and there's nothing 'impoverished' about it.' The claim that true power can only come from social consent is likewise misinformed - why is power so derived more true than power achieved via violent methods?


That's a charming notion, but clearly a made-up one. How can you explain the observed fact of violently repressive societies than nevertheless made tremendous progress (the United States, for example)?


Like Chamberlain's bit of paper stopped Hitler, right?

Boru

Damn it, I should have read that first...

On a much smaller scale than WWII, a prolonged campaign of violence in the country of my birth has led to peace (more or less). It was violence, not wishful thinking, that brought the parties to the negotiating table.

Boru