[extropy-chat] Gandhi's antipode

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Trend Ologist <trendologist at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Read the second paragraph of 'Pacifism As Mental
> Illness', it is diametrically opposed to Gandhism:
> http://dogchurch.org/discus/messages/118/167.html

Proud pacifists always seem to conclude that Gandhism is pure pacifism,
when it is not. Gandhism is a specific strategy of non-violent
resistance that ONLY functions when the oppressor state has a free
press and a populace that both controls who sits in government and
considers themselves moral and compassionate people. Gandhism does not
work with amoral regiemes, with states lacking in public virtue, open
channels of communication, or a means by which the public can hold the
state responsible.

That many pacifists continue to cling to such a misimpression so
desperately is definitely a sign of mental defect of some sort.

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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                         -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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