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7. Often humans run into threats so great that non-violence alone simply ends up w/ you dead in a ditch

Sun May 31, 2020, 08:08 AM

May 2020

or wearing the yoke of chattel slavery in various forms

this has occurred throughout the hundreds of thousands of years of collective human history

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If non-violence were universally effective, the police would be using it right now [View all] Recursion May 2020 OP

MLK Jr. called them principles G_j May 2020 #1

He also owned more guns than Malcolm X Recursion May 2020 #2

not sure how to see this then.. G_j May 2020 #4

he wasn't a pacifist bigtree May 2020 #6

Gandhi himself did not beleive in universal non-violence. Celerity May 2020 #3

Yup. And he was awarded for bravery in the Zulu war (nt) Recursion May 2020 #5