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Originally Posted by Yorick
But that's fighting fire with fire. You kill one and another takes their place because the real enemy is an ideology. I mindset. A set of values that say it's ok to kill a human to achieve your aims. By killing someone, even to protect people, you're still doing the same thing.
Ghandi proved that nonviolence was able to beat the biggest Empire of his day.
Jesus of course was the ultimate example of self-sacrifice triumphing.
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Tough men patrol at night to allow women, children and gentlemen to sleep in peace.
Firefighters conduct a back burn to prevent a fire from gaining more affluence.
A prison prolongs a perp from conducting a crime.
The death sentence prevents that perp from ever conducting another crime.