Thread: The Use of Force

Originally Posted by Noogah

I don't agree with the attitude towards violence here. In fact, I think it's very silly. Taosaur, you're making violence sound like a tornado. A random force that is unpredictable. You go on talking of mad men that go about killing each other, and bombs that you seem to believe are thrown left and right without any thought to where they land.

Anyways, that's what it sounds like to me.

There is such thing as controlled violence.

In an ideal world, when Mr. A was doing something awful, then Mr. B could confront Mr. A, and explain how ti was wrong. Mr. A would cease. In this world, it is quite possible that Mr. A won't cease. He may either ignore Mr. B, or hurt/kill him. If it comes to this, and Mr. A is hurting innocent people, and will listen to nothing, which would be worse? To allow Mr. A to continue hurting people? Or to disable Mr. A, and thus save the innocent people in question? This is a logical, controlled, and well thought out situation.

It seems both, Taosaur and you, are talking about the same thing.

Also, are you saying that controlled violence is the act to engage in violent conflict with whomever you consider unpredictably violent? There is too much ambiguity in your post for me to clearly understand it, and I assume your post might be confusing to other readers as well. So, Noogah, please clarify your post so we may understand it better.