oh yea, i totally forgot that "violence" solved nazism, facism, slavery, and communism.camo said:Yeah, you hippies got it all right. Violence never solved anything.....
except for Nazism, facism, slavery and communism... but who's paying attention to that.
man, it's so awesome to live in a world where nazism is completely non-existent. see, we killed all the nazis, and now nobody believes in the nazi ideology anymore; same with communism. oh wait! my friend's sister lives on a commune and subscribes to neo-marxist philosophy, we need to kill her!
oh well, atleast we won the vietnam war and saved the vietnamese from communism. but boy are vietnamese people ungrateful. and i can't believe that so many people actually think that it was wrong that we intervened with our own political motives, raped and murdered hundreds of thousands of people(including cambodians and laotians as well as vietnamese), and also devastated the lives of generations of vietnamese people even after the war with lasting environmental atrocities. some people just don't appreciate good old fashion violence.
we also shouldn't forget that the american civil war was fought to end slavery, and it alone both raised and resolved all the moral problems of enslaving human beings. remember, progressive minds like Fernão de Oliveira, who denounced slavery as an 'evil trade' in his Arte de Guerra no mar (The Art of War at Sea)(1555), had no bearing at all on the abolitionist movements of the 18th and 19th century, and neither did any of these uninfluential and ineffective non-violent responses to slavery:
- Domingo de Soto's De justicia et de jure libri X (Ten Books on Justice and Law)(1556), which argues that it is wrong to keep in slavery any person who was born free.
- Sevillian Dominican, Tomás de Mercado's Tratos y contratos de mercaderes (Practices and Contracts of Merchants)(1569), which attacks the way the slave trade is conducted.
- the Parlement of Bordeaux who set all slaves - "blacks and moors" - in the town free, declaring slavery illegal in France as early as 1571.
- Spanish-Mexican lawyer, Bartolemé Frías de Albornoz's Arte de los contratos (The Art of Contracts)(1573), which casts doubt on the legality of the slave trade.
- Francis Bacon's On Plantations(1597), in which he criticized the american plantations system, calling them extirpations rather than plantations.
- Spanish-Peruvian Jesuit, Alonso de Sandoval's many works denouncing slavery as a combination of various evils.
- and most Quakers and other American abolitionists who actively freed slaves and pushed for progressive societal changes but were ultimately unhelpful because they didn't use violence.
i just can't wait till we win this war on terrorism when the world will finally be free of terrorists, just like how how the war on drugs has ended drugs.
thanks for making that incisive post camo. some people just don't understand that most of the problems in the world exist because we don't have enough violence.
you're also very wise for construing the core discussion of this thread(factually grounded criticisms of our government's military policies) as how hippies don't understand that violence is the solution to most societal issues. way to cut to the chase!
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