Welcome to European Tribune. It's gone a bit quiet around here these days, but it's still going.
Display:
Conscience without the will to use force is only devastation of a beautiful soul.

and ghandi?

your definition of force may be really different than mine.

using negativity to fight negativity is black magic.

as soon as you use the diabolical tools, you become compromised, you might appear to win for a period of time, but you have hitched your wagon to the wrong star, imo.

cf, torture.

two wrongs don't make a right.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon Jun 1st, 2009 at 08:44:54 PM EST
[ Parent ]
Respectfully, two platitudes don't make a right either... And Ghandi, well, what did he do? Free India from the big bad Brits who would have otherwise devoured India? Please don't underestimate the British will to be independent of India...
Ghandi's most personal contribution was the disasterwith the Muslims. So Ghandi spun his will, and left, what, ten million dead on the subcontinent in his wake? When did the Brits kill ten million Indians?

Sorry about the roughness of the thoughts...
PA

Patrice Ayme Patriceayme.com Patriceayme.wordpress.com http://tyranosopher.blogspot.com/

by Patrice Ayme on Tue Jun 2nd, 2009 at 03:08:07 PM EST
[ Parent ]
some of your thoughts are rough, patrice, it's true.

i was using ghandi as an example of moral force, and its use, through inspiring millions of desperately exploited people. putting his agenda under a microscope wasn't my intention!

i think another point to make is that force against totalitarianism is a martyr's job.

 snark is better for sinking dictatorships.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Jun 3rd, 2009 at 11:27:54 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Display:

Occasional Series