Is violent protest moral/ethical in a free country?
Any means neccessary
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not ethical
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It's possible for a voting majority to do really wicked things to a minority and still call it democracy. Most of the time at least in the USA the minority can survive and counter through Constitutional protections. But were the majority to embark on a nasty or deadly policy crushing a minority then that minority's only choices are a) nonviolent protest, which they may have already been doing throughout, or b) violent protest, which isn't always planned, it can simply be individuals or crowds snapping because they've had enough, or c) leave the country entirely. My response was not to say violence should be accepted. Indeed I said it's a last resort. But I think it's naive to say there will never ever be a group in a free country with a justified reason to get violent. Side: Any means neccessary
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The fact is, our beloved country was BORN in VIOLENT dissent The country was born in war. Is that what you think ANTIFA wants? Is that what rioters want? The notion that the Boston Tea Party is at all similar to looting is one of the big things wrong in this country. The Boston Tea Party destroyed goods coming from a government supported monopoly whose accepted presence meant acceptance of government taxation without representation. Looting the goods of your neighbor and destroying their business in the process so that you can have their property for yourself in supposed response for some perceived governmental or societal injustice is in no way similar to the Boston Tea Party. That’s your cue. If Side: not ethical
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is looting a liquor store more or less violent than looting a ship full of tea? One is by a group of people wanting independence from a nation across the ocean nearly 300 years ago. The other is theft from your kinsmen, intentionally breaking the law, which is not an act of revolution, but of lawlesness. Side: not ethical
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The fact is, our beloved country was BORN in VIOLENT dissent 1)So was every other country. 2)This country has already been born. 3)These people aren't revolting. They act in no militaristic way. They are simply law breakers and thugs who steal, destroy, and punch grannys. 4)Of course, if they were on the right, you'd scream about Nazis and the end of the world. Side: not ethical
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