In reality, we wouldn't have a free country without killing people to defend it.
How do you know that? pacifism was never attempted by the US.
In reality, millions would be living in bondage, tyranny, oppression and slavery if we didn't kill.
Millions do live in Bondage, Tyranny Oppression and Slavery today as we speak all around the world.
In reality, some things are worth dying for, and some things are worth killing for.
I agree with the former; not with the latter.
One only has to look at Tibet, where the Dali Lama has been waiting over 40 years for his philosophy to work it's magic. Are you really willing to give up your freedom, be thrown in jail, tortured, left to watch your children and family be tortured, raped and enslaved in order to appease your non-violent philosophy?
I would rather be killed practicing what I believe is Right, than to live for one minute violating these principles.
To do nothing and turn the other cheek invites more of the same terror to happen again and again. And it lies at the heart of why your philosophical musings make no logical sense at all.
The pattern of violence repeated throughout the ages is all too predictable; this is where your philisophical musings make no logical sense at all since we see what the pattern of violence creates.
Regards,
brian |
