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RE: Hate begets Hate, Apathy begets Nothingness, and You too can have a Hamster Wheel
Great post. My $0.03: aggression vs defense - it is violence vs force thing. Initiation of violence is against NAP, force is simply responding to that violence appropriately. I think non-aggression principle is worded better by, instead "do no harm", saying "stop harm from happening". Then it covers both sides of the equation. Do not initiate violence and do not let violence happen to you. Violence is violence and no matter what direction it flows it does harm. I also heard it expressed colorfully as "do no harm, take no shit" :)
The only problem I have with "stop harm from happening" is that opens the door in the mind of some for preemptive aggression. Which can often be attacking someone because something MIGHT happen.
No victim, no crime, therefore preemptive aggression should not be acceptable.
Yet other than that concern I agree. Thanks for the reply.
Valid concern, and I acknowledge that "stop harm from happening" is not the best worded expression. Maybe simple "make peace"...? :)
Yes. Unfortunately I am uncertain that everyone truly comprehends what Peace means. "Make peace" works if the people understand peace and have not subjectified it to something not quite right. We already see people that endorse FREE SPEECH as long as you saw what they want to hear. When you do not, then they advocate censoring you. It is the hypocrisy that seems to be breeding like weeds all over the place these days.
Person A says "Don't do X it is bad and evil!!!!" Something doesn't go the way they want and they do X. Hypocrisy.
With mentality like that I am fairly certain they would not quite understand the term Peace. Or perhaps they do understand, they just do not believe the things they say should apply to them. I am not like that so I truly do not comprehend why they are hypocritical, I can only guess and speculate.