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Opinions ********* Submitted for your reading pleasure, I present to you my newest work. Is violence the answer? Scribes and fighters alike, all good men wish peaceful lives. And if all men were good, a peaceful life we would certainly have. Sadly, all men are not, and this leaves us with a difficult dilemma to solve. I asked several people this following over-generalized question: How do you stop evil men from doing evil things? Berge the healer: 'with good men doing evil things I'm afraid.' Homi the warrior: 'stop them by any means necessary, though discourse should occur first.' Tyredin the berserker: 'The only recourse is retribution once the act has been committed.' A strong argument for non-violence is that it indeed leads to further bloodshed, and feelings of vengeance from the fallen evils do not subside. They may even band together to grow even stronger. Violence can escalate the situation, turning a minor conflict into full-blown war. Many lives may be lost in the process. The alternative to violence though, is none. Should we not fight back, these evil monsters will massacre us all, and take pleasure doing it. So neither can we sit back and watch friends die, in the hope it'll die out. The only thing that will die out is our friends. With no solution to the question in sight, a new problem is exposed. Its the question itself that is misguided We asked ourselves "Is violence the answer?" when what we should really be asking, is "When?". So, when is violence the answer to the problem of guarding peace? For violence to be condonable, the only reason that is ever valid is in self-defense. Should all men only use violence in self-defense, it would indeed be a peaceful realms as we wish for. It is those that use violence for other reasons (examples: for fun, or for getting what they want) that are the evil men who disturb peace. These evils seek to threaten the very well-being of our realm. If good men do nothing, there will be nothing to stop them from destroying everything we have built together. Pacifism, though peaceful in intent, has a weakness. Were every man a pacifist, nobody would want to take care of evil, and it would run rampant unchecked through this realm. Pacifism alone does not work in practice. The only way that pacifists can survive is with a strong enough guardian present to protect them. Evil prevails when good men do nothing. This is why, even though pacifism is a virtuous life, credit for the peace of the realm must always be given to the heroes who have fought to establish it, and died in its defense. (Continued in opinions2) |
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