Our reigning POTYs takeaway from this thread is that the victims didn't spend enough time talking to the shooter
Why would you say something dumb like that? I'm the one who was advocating for physically stopping the shooter from the very beginning of this conversation.
I'm sorry I upset you
@Pressure. I'll eat that neg because clearly I haven't been "effectively communicating." From my perspective you just keep repeating the violent American mythology, because you've been steeped in it since birth like every other American. I can't expect to overcome 20 years of cultural brainwashing with one conversation.
But it is strange that you called me "soft" on that neg when this entire argument started because I was the one calling for bravery in stopping a shooting and you were the one who was advocating run and hide.
And no, I'm not removed from violence. I had three brehs shot down 50 yards from me just last summer. A gun wouldn't have done shyt for them, it happened in less than 5 seconds. I can list numerous acts of violence that I have been involved in and/or intervened in, but I don't think personal stories are gonna win the day here, which is why I keep going to logic and numbers.
You mock me talking about Jesus. Jesus was CLEARLY preaching non-violence. He is the one who told Peter to put away his sword, for all who live by the sword will die by the sword. He is the one who preached love your enemy, he's the one who kept telling the Jewish rebels that they were only going to bring their own destruction down on their head (as is EXACTLY what happened in the Jewish War, when all of Jerusalem was destroyed in horrific devastation in A.D. 70 and the temple was torn down forever).
But while the Jews were destroyed, the Christians kept growing (despite heavy persecution) until they took over the empire without having to wield a weapon.
"We are equally forbidden to wish evil, to do evil, to speak evil, and to think evil toward all people. . . . So if we are commanded to love our enemies, whom have we to hate? If injured, we are forbidden to retaliate, lest we become as evil as our attackers. No one can suffer injury at our hands . . . since we do not bear arms nor raise any banner of insurrection."
"But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of the rank and file or lesser grades who neither engage in pagan sacrifices nor capital punishment, be admitted into the church? No on both counts—for there is no agreement between the divine sacrament and the human sacrament, the standard of Christ and the standard of the devil, the camp of light and the camp of darkness. One soul cannot serve two masters—God and Caesar. And yet some people toy with the subject by saying, 'Moses carried a rod, Aaron wore a buckle, John the Baptist girded himself with leather just like soldiers do belts, and Joshua the son of Nun led troops into battle, such that the people waged war.' But how will a Christian engage in war—indeed, how will a Christian even engage in military service during peacetime—without the sword, which the Lord has taken away? For although soldiers had approached John to receive instructions and a centurion believed, this does not change the fact that afterward, the Lord, by disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier."
That's Tertullian, the most famous theologian of the 2nd century. That's the philosophy that led to Christianity becoming the biggest religion in the empire, while the Jews who tried to fight instead were destroyed. I could quote numerous other Christians saying similar things before Constanine and company warped the faith. I could go on for pages about Jesus and non-violence. If you actually follow the God of Jesus Christ, then he's showing you a way out here.
Terrible example - the Incas were violent as hell, they just had inferior weapons. So they were annihilated.
Which is the exact thing you're advocating for - to fight back against superior firepower with violence and inferior weapons.
How well did that work out for the Incas?
We live in a country where black people are only free from slavery because we went to war over it and won.
@Rhakim enjoy this neg.
Really, that's the only reason? So how did Pennsylvania get free from slavery? How did New York get free from slavery? When was Canada's war that ended slavery there? When did Britain end the slave trade?
There WERE other ways to end slavery. Lincoln wasn't even trying to end slavery with the Civil War, he was just trying to keep the Union together while refusing to further
spread slavery, and if the South had surrendered before 1863 he never would have sent out the Emancipation Proclamation, just as before the war he told them that he would not interfere with any of their "internal affairs" so long as they stayed in the Union. Of course, the fallout from the Civil War was another 100 years of segregation, sharecropping, Jim Crow, and some of the most embedded racism
to this day. Because you know what? Those White Union soldiers who went to war didn't actually care about Black folk like all that, and that's not what they were actually fighting for, and they didn't have the political will to make sure that freedom was actually reached, so by 1877 they sold out on Black folk and gave the White racist Southerners control over Black people again. Who then proceeded to fukk over Black people in every way they could and STILL will fukk over Black people while singing gripes about a war that happened 155 years ago. So you really think that was the
ideal way to do it?
That doesn't mean that the folk, Black or White, who fought for freedom weren't heroes. They were still heroes, they were still doing what they believed to be right, and it's them over the fukking slaveowners 365 days a year. But you can look at the results and realize that with all the good intentions, and with supposedly "winning" the war (I struggle to see how anyone "wins" a conflict where 600,000 people die), we still ended up with some real shytty long-term results. Can you not admit that there may have been another way, a better way?
The holocaust happened because Jewish people weren't non violent enough. And it only ended when they reached peak non violence.
The Holocaust didn't start until two years into the war. That kind of horrific evil almost never happens outside of a war context. You know why? Because outside of that violent a context, regular people aren't willing to take such violent orders. Hitler had control of Germany for 7 years and hadn't even started to plan the Holocaust, even the Night of Broken Windows (which was mainly property damage) had received intense backlash from his own people with even military officers decrying it. Hitler's repeated plan had been to ship the Jews out, not to massacre them - the "Final Solution" only got proposed once they were well into war.
In the end it was almost a worst-case scenario - 60+ million dead, 70% of Europe's Jews massacred, half of Europe given away to the Communists, immediate entry into the Cold War. By the end of the war even the USA was massacring already-defeated civilians by the tens of thousands without any strategic value. World War II was an abject failure - we "won" because we got power, but the actual results were the most horrific in history. How can you claim to have won, to have done the right thing, when your actions helped cause the worst era of destruction and death in world history?
And only 3 million European Jews were saved from death in the Holocaust. 90% of them were saved by nonviolent heroes like Andre Trocme or the Danish Resistance, only 200,000-300,000 Jews were saved by the advancing armies. You know why? Because the armies were concerned about power, not about stopping no Holocaust. There were 9 million Jews in Europe when the war started, less than 5% of them were saved by the Allied armes.
Another example of the abject failure of war.
They're being slaughtered because they aren't effectively communicating
You picked the WORST example there.
Do you have a clue what's going on in the Philippines right now? How the hell would guns help them? They have entire kill squads of cops with the support of the President carrying out executions in the middle of the night, you honestly think a gun is going to magically lead you to survive that? You aren't thinking.
But not just that, it was a really, really bad example because just 30 years ago, the last time the Filipinos had a violent dictator, they kicked him out of power with a nonviolent revolution.
People Power Revolution - Wikipedia
The
People Power Revolution (also known as the
EDSA Revolution, the
Philippine Revolution of 1986,
EDSA 1986,
EDSA I and
EDSA People Power) was a series of popular
demonstrations in the
Philippines, mostly in
Metro Manila from February 22–25, 1986. There was a sustained campaign of
civil resistance against regime violence and alleged electoral fraud. The
nonviolent revolution led to the departure of
Ferdinand Marcos, the end of his 21-year presidential rule, and the restoration of
democracy in the Philippines.
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Why do you shyt on the idea that nonviolence works better than violence, when I keep giving you example after example and the statistical proof is there?