Tuesday, July 29, 2014

The Tolstoyan Imperative


The moment you concede that there is any validity to the proposition that violence is an acceptable method of conflict resolution, you have become part of the problem, not part of the solution.

There can be no exceptions to this fundamental rule of life. None. Any claimed exception is merely a compromise with evil.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Quite right. I took the liberty of re-posting this statement on Bruce Ledewitz blog "Hallowed Secularism" under the entry "Americans are Israelies." Hope you don't mind.

Sidi Hamid Benengeli said...

Spread the word.

Sidi Hamid Benengeli said...

B/t/w, I went to Bruce's blog and took the liberty of commenting on a couple of posts (the one you commented on and "The Return of Teleology" (God help us).