Greenwald and the Right Wing Media Have the Same Obama Smear--(Using Media Matters.)

[The Magistrate]

124. I Do Not Expect To Convince You Of Anything, Sir

My only purpose was to let you know how the facile posture you struck in the title of the post I replied to looks to people who do not share your view that the be all and end all of morale behavior is never to employ violence, for whatever purpose, against whatever actor, in any circumstance. I think that is a very cramped and foolish view, not much different from that of those who take the view the be all and end all of morale behavior is to never engage in sexual behavior that is not procreative and licensed by a priest and the state.

I will point out Ghandi's suggested course for the Jews of Europe in face of Hitler was that they should kill themselvesen masse, as a moral rebuke to those who hated them, which would spare them the sin of committing murder themselves, and thus display the heights of spiritual love and redemption.

i will also point out that, as a political tactic, non-violence depends of the violence of others: it does not work if the demonstrators are not assaulted by police, and even that will not work unless the violence offends the sensibilities of most onlookers. It is a pretty question to examine just where the moral balance might fall when persons who claim violence is immoral depend upon provoking others to violence against them in order to gain their own ends.