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March 9th, 2005

jarandhel: (Default)
Wednesday, March 9th, 2005 06:11 pm
I found the balance today between the warrior mindset and the pacifistic/nonviolent mindset. It was Gandhi who led me to it.

Gandhi believed that, in the face of injustice, if the only choice left to you was the use of violence or passivity/inaction... you should use violence. That's the answer.

Violence is the weapon of last resort, when all others have or will fail to address the injustice. This is a tenet that most true warriors live by.

One who has no skills as a warrior tends to use violence as a first (and only) resort, and not merely in the face of injustice.

It is possible to be nonviolent, even pacifistic in one's philosophy and actions, yet turn to violence in the face of injustice when one has no other options left.

That is the balance.
jarandhel: (Default)
Wednesday, March 9th, 2005 09:47 pm
Q: What is ''passive violence'' and how does it lead to physical violence, wars and such?

A: ''Passive violence is the type of violence in which we don't use any physical force but nevertheless what we do or don't do; what we say or don't say, hurts someone, somewhere, consciously or unconsciously. Wasting resources for instance when there is poverty and hunger in the world is a form of passive violence. Ignoring the pain of others because we can't be bothered with getting involved is another.  There are millions of ways in which we practice passive violence consciously and unconsciously and that generates anger in the victim and the victim then becomes physically violent. So it is passive violence that fuels the fire of physical violence. Logically, therefore, if we want to put out the fire of physical violence we must first cut off the supply of fuel that ignites the fire. So, as grandfather said, ''we must become the change we wish to see in the world.''