Fighting violence with kindness is a great plan when the entity on the other side is capable of responding to kindness. Which, most are, as long as it’s framed appropriately. Kindness should be the first resort, and violence the last, but a complete unwillingness to use violence can also lead to more net suffering by yielding power to those without such compunctions.
Fighting violence with kindness is a great plan when the entity on the other side is capable of responding to kindness. Which, most are, as long as it’s framed appropriately. Kindness should be the first resort, and violence the last, but a complete unwillingness to use violence can also lead to more net suffering by yielding power to those without such compunctions.
Agreed, this is a crucial lesson of history.