| When people believe that they must solve | | | | it means.Ultimately, when fighting and |
| their problems with the direct use of force | | | | conflict rise from beyond the domestic |
| and violence, it will show as a great sign of | | | | crises, it will manifest itself in war -- but |
| the failure of civilization. Do | | | | much more than just that. For every bomb |
| sophisticated men solve their quarrels with | | | | dropped, it is another sign of lost hope. |
| the use of violence? When scientists are | | | | For every soldier bayonetted, every village |
| presenting a new theory or hypothesis, would | | | | burned, every dissent of opinion suppressed |
| they ever feel the need to use physical | | | | -- when we look at every sign of war, we are |
| force, or would they bring evidence? A good | | | | reminded a little less of why we believe in |
| theory will not be in need of violence, just | | | | the bloom of humaneness. War has never |
| as much as good men will do as much as they | | | | brought peace, it has never brought |
| can to solve their problems peacefully. I | | | | Democracy, it has never brought economic |
| believe in Pacifism, and by this, I believe | | | | stability. Those incidents of revolution may |
| that whenever violence arrises, the beautify | | | | in some cases be the exception to this. But |
| in humanity decreases, the flower of | | | | the rise of the Western World's dominance in |
| reverence wilts, and a storm just begins to | | | | global affairs, of such a small amount of |
| foment on the horizon of the future.My | | | | countries making up the policies and |
| opposition to violence, to the use of | | | | regulations for such a great amount of |
| physical brutality as a method to reach a | | | | nations, it has only followed a great deal of |
| conclusion, is based on my humane philosophy, | | | | Imperialism and war. In every nation that |
| and my love of every conscious being. For | | | | has felt the grueling whip of the overseer, |
| every organism that is alive in this Universe | | | | there has been the crater of war, the empty |
| and lives every day with as much fear as they | | | | bowl of famine, the slums of poverty. In |
| do hope -- who adores those tender memories | | | | these conditions, nations will struggle to |
| of intimacy, and writhes and cries at those | | | | survive, as all meaning of a true Democracy |
| traumatic events that shifted their reality | | | | are removed by foreign investors. And so, we |
| into a nightmare -- for every being that can | | | | have the image of war: sacrificing the lives |
| suffer and every being who mourns such | | | | of our children, for the sake of economic |
| suffering, there is another reason to believe | | | | prosperity. Yet, it is not economic |
| in Pacifism; to believe in the way of peace, | | | | prosperity in that all involved benefit, but |
| in that it is an ultimate goal of our humane | | | | it is rather economic slavery, in that one is |
| sentiments. For every experience that is | | | | forced into cooperation at no benefit, |
| touched with the pain of violence, there is | | | | whereas the other receives the profit of the |
| another mournful tear in the eye of | | | | other. As soldiers march off to battle an |
| compassion -- another lie spoken by truth. | | | | enemy their leaders have told them was a |
| In this world of ours, where war and famine | | | | source of all infamy, there will be one less |
| are consequential results of a Capitalist | | | | reason to think that civilization will be |
| economy, where a man's opinion is enough for | | | | acheived.Of all inventions, of cultures which |
| the government to curse them, where the most | | | | have made the human species sing praise and |
| respected of the population are revered for | | | | of those thinkers that men attribute genius |
| their devotion to an unseen being -- when | | | | to, of all creations, there are fewer that |
| everyday is another spectacle at how much a | | | | have more merits than that of Diplomacy. |
| joke our civilization is, at pursuits that | | | | Through the use of this wonderful creation, |
| create nothing and share no inspiration, at | | | | we can try to settle our differences not |
| every person's fear to say and be what they | | | | through the sword of war, but through the |
| think -- to see the regrets of those who are | | | | quill of reason -- not in spite of |
| now war veterans, to feel the trembling pains | | | | compassion, but at the aid of reverence. |
| of those who never sought a lover -- when | | | | Leaders may be reviled as those who are |
| everyday is just another struggle to be | | | | either dictators or representatives, and the |
| honest and sincere, the only wish I can cast | | | | difference between the two possibilities is |
| upon the fading star of our future is that | | | | rather insignificant, but there was one tool |
| more will appeal to the position of Pacifism, | | | | that leaders had at their disposal which gave |
| and more will adhere to those non-violent | | | | civilization a brilliant light to its shine. |
| solutions.When it comes to a fight, a | | | | That tool was Diplomacy. The first day that |
| physical fight, it is little more than an | | | | a person used reason instead of force to |
| expression of aggression, but the bruises | | | | conclude an argument was the first day that |
| will always run deep down to the soul. | | | | civilization had a true realization. Not |
| Humiliation and Depression may infect the | | | | just in the structures, or the artwork, or |
| mind, just as scars and debility will destroy | | | | the productivity, or those fickle matters |
| the body. There is not a just court in this | | | | that historians toil over when it comes to |
| world who would accept a fight as a proper | | | | culture. But in the hearts of men and women, |
| method to reach a verdict. Those verdicts | | | | there is a real understanding of |
| which are guided by the principles of justice | | | | civilization, when they lean towards solution |
| and fairness, they are not based on the | | | | which are most peaceful, and offer the |
| fighting ability of either the defendent or | | | | greatest praise when violence can be averted. |
| the plaintiff, but rather by the evidence | | | | I will give Diplomacy this very merited |
| presented by both sides. It was a blessed | | | | distinction among other creations. Unlike |
| day when Dueling grew old and tiresome, and | | | | the factories that produce more bombs than we |
| garnered no respect from those who valued | | | | have earth -- more bullets than we have |
| civilization and truth. The idea that a | | | | people -- Diplomacy was a creation that was |
| quarrel, a dilemma, an argument, can be | | | | not brought about for use against or for |
| settled with the use of brute force -- this | | | | justice, against or for liberty, but rather, |
| idea is simple a demonstration of grave | | | | as a conflict-resolving, peaceful |
| ignorance, at the cost of intelligence and | | | | method.Violence is violence, and it is a form |
| truth. When we see two individuals fighting | | | | of brutality that will never be acceptable in |
| each other, for the sake of some trifle or | | | | the heart of the Humanitarian -- it will |
| another, little more than disdain can be used | | | | always be reviled as ignorant as much as it |
| to express our opinion on the matter, as | | | | is merciless. There are, though, a very few |
| fighting will solve nothing. When two | | | | amount of cases where violence can be |
| scientists are arguing against each other, | | | | condoned, but in these instances, the |
| both of them upholding their own method as | | | | definition of "violence" and "force" are |
| being a better way, evidence will be the | | | | almost altered entirely. When a man is |
| determining factor in which one we decide to | | | | attacked, this is violence, but when he |
| believe. In matters of intellectual | | | | fights back, it is equally violence -- but in |
| investigation, of confirming or debunking, | | | | the case of fighting back, it is justified, |
| when it matters because it's what we believe | | | | it is a sign of strength and duty. There is |
| -- brute violence, the use of coercion, has | | | | no way that I could still adhere to the |
| never been loyal to the spirit of truth, has | | | | foundations of Reason and Logic, and still |
| never offered assistance to the methods of | | | | not defend a person's right to self defense. |
| reason."Be with me now," a lover will say to | | | | Asside from this right, there is one other |
| the person who gives light to life. Never | | | | instance where force and coercion can be |
| are these words more sincere than at the | | | | allowed. In those instances where an |
| conclusion of some conflict, at the end of | | | | injustice has been committed, and recompense |
| some arduous fighting, intolerance, | | | | must be paid, it is allowable. An example of |
| indignance, viciousness. To engage in | | | | this would be our modern corporations: they |
| fighting, in a contest of physical strength, | | | | pay poorly and they sell at high prices. In |
| it will not solve problems. To those who are | | | | the end, the business world gathers wealth |
| so willing to do so, they may find that for | | | | whereas the poor struggle to survive. In |
| years they will be haunted by the screams of | | | | this world, where Capitalism reigns and the |
| their downed victims, by the tears of widows | | | | downtrodden must suffer, to shoplift from a |
| and orphans. Mercilessness among every vice | | | | store is but an act of revolution -- it is |
| -- when a child cries, only those hands that | | | | justifiable in that corporations are thieves |
| belong to a humane person will reach. For a | | | | themselves. In a very real way, shoplifting |
| man to be robbed, to walk down the same | | | | is more of repossession and not theft. When |
| street he has every day of his life, and to | | | | companies force 12 year old children to sew |
| have his property taken away from him -- the | | | | soccer balls for 10 cents an hour, this is a |
| man will have lost more than a physical item. | | | | crime. When a street punk steals food to |
| His heart will be wrought with the pains of | | | | feed himself, this is not a crime. And it is |
| the depth of cruelty in men. It may be a | | | | interesting to recognize that the law |
| thing to lose an item one day, no matter how | | | | recognizes the first as not a crime and the |
| cherished or dear that item is. But when | | | | first as a crime. The government does not |
| someone destroys your reasons to believe in | | | | exist to serve the will of the people. But |
| charity, your motives to understand the | | | | in the instance where a person is defending |
| emotions of the hearts of others -- when | | | | themselves or their rights or justice, |
| something is capable of rendering such a | | | | physical force is justified, but in those |
| bruttish, terrible effect, it is more than | | | | instances where people are trying to solve a |
| just the loss of a physical item. So, too, | | | | simple dilemma, it is not justified. This is |
| when a man is struck or attacked, he will | | | | my position on the matter of Pacifism and |
| feel more than just the pain from the blows, | | | | Peace as a Humanitarian. Life,Punkerslut (or |
| but an unending confusion and depression, | | | | Andy Carloff) has been writing essays and |
| mostly centering around the question, "How | | | | poetry on social issues which have caught his |
| could they do that?" And it will be meant | | | | attention for several years. His website |
| that it is hard to believe that a person | | | | provides a complete list of all of these |
| could reach such cruel depths. I will not | | | | writings. His life experience includes |
| pretend that I can accurately express how | | | | homelessness, squating in New Orleans and LA, |
| horrible a man feels when they are wronged -- | | | | dropping out of high school, getting expelled |
| such emotions are beyond the possibilities of | | | | from college for "subversive activities," and |
| our humble language. But, hopefully, I have | | | | a myriad of other revolutionary actions. |
| been able to demonstrate to some degree what | | | | |