CoL49 - anarchy

[Joseph Tracy]

This would be the moral teaching of Jesus, Gandhi, Tolstoy, King.  One has to believe that this is the knowable will of God to accept this ideal. It is not self evident to most people.  The law of Moses was quite different as were many other moral and legal codes. What is pretty clear is that violence tends to beget more violence.  Whether Gandhian non violence can end that cycle  is hard to prove by example. People traumatized by violence can sometimes forgive, but there is a logic also to ending the life of a person who is a perpetrator of violence.  Then there are the cases where someone or some army or…. Is trying to kill you and/or your family, community… Here is where you get a lot of waffling on non-violence as the best tactic .  Disdain and judgement are forms of violence. Moving toward an inner peaceableness is certainly one of the hardest inner struggles.

> On Jun 20, 2024, at 6:23 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> To be "more aligned" with the Traverses, which of course he is, is not to
> justify their violence.
> 
> Violence judged morally is not done with false equivalencies.   I was
> justified because you were worse. Not an argument.
> To get simplistic; Two wrongs, etc….

This