re MDMD: America

[cS. Mercier]

There is all sorts of documented rulings, and warfare in the Vedics (Jain 
and Hindu) using this non-violence process (Ahimsa).  This process does 
work, it has been done, and sucessfully.  Gandhi is just one example but 
there are many others that are taught/told in the Vedics.



>From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
>To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: RE: re MDMD:  America
>Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 19:17:16 -0800
>
>Good point, Scott, but non-violenc is not passive or non-reactive.  You can
>physically prevent somebody else from harming a third party without
>actually harming the potential perpetrator.  In Dixon's case, it reads as
>if the slave owner ran his face into Dixon's raised fist -- that's hardly a
>punch.  Certanly Dixon feels many impulses and motivations before and
>during his action -- moral outrage at the treatment of people as property
>significant among them.  Even if  he feels impelled to physical assault or
>even murder, the important thing, in my opinion, is that he refrains from
>doing so.
>
>At 8:13 PM -0500 3/6/02, Scott Badger wrote: [...]


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