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This is not how you win lasting change. This is how you turn your country into hell. One person should never have the power to do this; they should have to be a

This is not how you win lasting change. This is how you turn your country into hell. One person should never have the power to do this; they should have to be able to win the hearts and minds of others to impose their will on the world. Movement in this direction is always preferable. Edit: When you’re using insurgent violence to try to force the world around you to change into what you desire, in which sense are you not just as much of a tyrant?

dwaltrip 9y ago
The comment above is talking about a last resort defense against the country going full on brutal totalitarianism. Not saying I agree with it, but it doesn't sound like you were responding to that.
wemdyjreichert 9y ago
There's an article with a similar issue to this that just hit the front page, and it mentions the "paradox of tolerance" or "Popper's Paradox". Namely, if you are tolerant of intolerance, the intolerance will win out and the tolerance will disappear. If you give excessive freedom to propagate tyranny, tyranny will take over, thereby destroying all freedom. For this reason, force is sometimes necessary to stop force. Or, to use the colloquialism, fight fire with fire. Fight firepower with firepower.