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Originally Posted by analog
I didn't say anything about people feeling bad about killing.
If you kill a person in peaceful protest, you haven't won anything. You've just proven that you're only able to feel victorious by killing your opposition.
I also didn't say peace "changes all". I simply said it's more powerful.
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Yeah, generalizations suck... but I have to put branches on the tree to climb it, no?
I got a small brain that lacks a lot of nooks and crannies. This is what I figure:
Without emotions there would be minimal conflict on this planet. Some feeling is always involved. Especially in this "peaceful protest" you refer to here. Group A "feels" like Group B should stop doing Activity C. Group B beats the crap outta Group A and probably continues doing Activity C.
As westerners... we give pop culture virtues a lot of weight in a very violent world. We're not surrounded by Peter Frampton fans... not everybody wants to feel like we do.
Peace is more civilized, more creative, more productive... clearly the more balanced path... but I would suggest it is less powerful than the focused force of violence.
Thermodynamics might say peace is potential energy, that violence is kinetic energy. The first law of thermodynamics applies.
Meh. Just a thought.