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"Surely that no collatoral innocents be harmed ever is too high a standard ..." When we're talking about independent outlaw actors, as opposed to the law and j
by sixtofour 15y ago
"Surely that no collatoral innocents be harmed ever is too high a standard ..."
When we're talking about independent outlaw actors, as opposed to the law and justice that you invoke in your response, then no, I don't think it's too high a standard.
- dynamichype 15y agoJust to have you elaborate then: you are against all forms of civil disobedience that cause harm? Is it that you believe movements can succeed without such tactics (e.g. that the civil rights movement would have succeeded without the race riots and that the earlier mill rights movements would have succeeded without violence) or that you are against all such social change?
- sixtofour 15y ago"you are against all forms of civil disobedience that cause harm?" Mostly, but not absolutely. Unnecessarily exposing the existence and whereabouts of someone's kids for what amounts to little more than vandalism and tagging, yes.