If you hide the solution, the problem will keep getting worse. Guaranteed. It can't go any other way.
If you don't allow people to say what the solution is, you are actively hiding the solution, and fewer people will understand; the situation will get worse. Every single time. You're the bad guy causing the problem to escalate.
Yes, the solution is sometimes violence- but never aggression.
This is the reality that needs to be spoken. Expressing it needs to be normalized, not punished.
If you punish people for saying so- for telling the truth- you're empowering the bad guys. You're picking the wrong side to defend.
I understand that the thought of being violent upsets many decent people. They want to see themselves as "peaceful" for some odd reason. They think suggesting violence, even when that's not really what was done, needs to be stopped. They confuse violence with aggression.
The thought of their intended victims being violent to stop a crime scares the bad guys and upsets political criminals and those trained to think like they do. There's a lot of overlap in that Venn diagram; it's basically a circle unless you go microscopic.
Find ways to speak the truth, even as the bad guys try to stop you. It's necessary. Normalize self-defense so completely that bad guys- freelance, governmental, and corporate- can't silence us all. Stop letting them hide the solution.
As you have so clearly noted in recent posts, antipathy to violence is appropriately directed only to aggression initiated against others. To act in self defense is an inherent natural right in response to attack. This is true not only with regard to individual encounters but in all such instances. It is the proper and just reply either in mere resistance or counter response. This fact has larger social manifestations as well. Government power and control inherently expands its hegemony until it encounters an equal or superior power in opposition. This limiting constraint has NEVER been achieved by laws or constitutions or judicial judgements but ONLY by another separate and independent source of power exercised to the contrary. Actions are resisted and restrained solely by other actions. To wish that this could be accomplished by simpler measures is a self indulgent deception.
ReplyDeleteI understand the wishes of those who think government can be limited with constitutions, but history has shown it doesn't work. At some point, people are going to have to defend themselves from government, with self-defensive violence, or resign themselves to being its cattle. It can't be otherwise.
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