• zea@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    18 days ago

    This is basically the tolerance paradox but for violence. If people are willing to use violence on me (denying healthcare, keeping us poor, stochastic terrorism) then I’m fine using it back, otherwise they get free reign.

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      17 days ago

      But the violence will never end. By using violence back on them you change nothing. The solution is not violence, it is political action.

      If you have any actual impact on politics via violence then you’re justing going to tear down a bad system for an obviously worse outcome.

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        17 days ago

        The violence already doesn’t end. Why should I sit and take it? Obviously we need political stuff too, but violence is a useful tool to those ends.

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          17 days ago

          The “violence” of only the majority of people getting the healthcare they need is nothing compared to the “violence” of riots and murders in the streets.

          Nor would more violence in any way remedy the old violence.