thread: 2005-05-16 : Violence
On 2005-05-17, Ben Lehman wrote:
Chris: Here is our disconnect.
There is a situation in which the right thing to do is to not fight, to not hit, to submit or to walk away.
When that situation comes, and someone responds aggressively, I'm not going to call him manly. I'm going to call him a coward. Because he is.
Mastering your violence is a method to be able to walk away when you need to. I am not opposed to training in violent methods, if it is towards this mastery. I've done a lot of that myself But I am opposed to calling those methods the keystone of society.
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—Ben
