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Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan  How would one ethically counter an attack like that? A person who would call you a "terrorist dictator lover" for being peaceful? |
I ask myself what would Martin Luther King do? WWMLKD
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Really, I wouldn't feel violence necessary here. Oh, sure, there was a time I would have wanted to punch her in the face for saying something like that. But that would totally defeat the whole peace is the way philosophy I have going
. I think those who continue to live out peace in the face of attacks like this are the ones who will be the greatest example to everyone else. Sensationalist Fox News type verbal pandering attacks will be shown for what they really are...we don't have to bomb the station
. I mean, sometimes I want to slap Ann Coulter upside her head, but what will that really accomplish?
As for the other questions, I am okay with self defense and the defense of others. I would only use the amount of force necessary to secure myself or the person I was defending.
To the question about an "immoral majority" -- if you are talking about a regime such as the Nazi party that gets a little greyer for me. I would try to do all I could peacefully, but I bet I would take up arms in defense of my family, friends and neighbors before I would let them go into concentration camps. Although the stories of those who went willingly and through strength, patience and courage survived are very telling of what is possible. I am not sure I could do that.