The responses to this post have kinda proven its point. Even when self defense is necessary, killing people is bad, war is bad, and the military is evil. Violence will never be a favorable thing, even if it is unavoidable, and it is never something we can take lightly or promote as a banal part of life. The only way we should consider violence in our daily life is to reaffirm why we need to toil to make society fair and just. Minimizing the drivers of conflict is more effective at stopping it than people want to accept.
Injustice being inevitable is not an excuse to sneer at those who want to combat it. The moment you accept it as immutable is the moment that you start to perpetuate it.
The responses to this post have kinda proven its point. Even when self defense is necessary, killing people is bad, war is bad, and the military is evil. Violence will never be a favorable thing, even if it is unavoidable, and it is never something we can take lightly or promote as a banal part of life. The only way we should consider violence in our daily life is to reaffirm why we need to toil to make society fair and just. Minimizing the drivers of conflict is more effective at stopping it than people want to accept.
Injustice being inevitable is not an excuse to sneer at those who want to combat it. The moment you accept it as immutable is the moment that you start to perpetuate it.