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Originally posted by Charlatan
It is exactly this sort of thinking that creates violence in the first place... I have absolutely no respect for someone who must resort to violence.
Violence is the domain of cowards and simpletons who are unwilling or unable to think of alternatives.
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I think your experience may be more of an exception than the norm. Your experiences have had bad results. Everyone I know of that ever had problems in school or otherwise resolved their problems when they made a stand and stood up for themselves. I am not advocating violence. There are some instances where you are left with no other choice. There was definitely an alternative solution to this kids problem other than stabbing him with a pencil. There are however some people out there that can not be dealt with in any other fashion. They don’t get the message any other way, they cant be reasoned with. You will never convince me otherwise. My experiences have shown me that. I have had a couple of incidents that ended in violence. I am neither proud nor ashamed of what I did. I did what I had to do at that given time. Looking back at those situations I have no regrets.
Let me ask you this. Do you respect a woman that resorts to beating the hell out of an attacker by any means necessary to avoid being victimized? Because after all that is resorting to violence.