Is Violence Always Wrong?

[@PaulFisher-f3x]

“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”- Gen. James Mattis USMC; I remember when that journalist asked about "telling children to lie!"...LOL!- Be well -Paul

[@dortywings7217]

Parents and teachers do not teach concepts of appropriate violence cause life for them is more comfortable if they only teach obedience.The older I get the more I am concerned that children do not learn anything useful for life in public schools. Beeing nonviolent encourages attackers, I never looked at it that way, very true!

[@EEDIR-DK]

You have a right to life, if someone wants to infringe on that, you are allowed to respond with enough force to end the threat. Most people here live in a civilized society, so force is rarely needed, which is nice, but that civilized society is build on the threat of violence against anyone, who wants to challenge the law / consensus. Being a pacifist is in itself immoral, because you are thereby mandating others to use force to defend you, as it is the duty of an upstanding citizen to prevent crime.