mario got luigi acting up i guess.
Based.
Incredible violence is just a kind of love, you know? Violence is predicated on a kind of love. You must become intimately familiar with your opponent, with their movements, their mind, in order to do effective violence, to cause effective destruction. Violence is an intimate act, it requires a kind of love, begets a kind of love. Sort of the idea of, the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. Hate and love are just two lenses through which the same core compulsion is viewed, and violence is just another kind of outlet for that compulsion.
You must become intimately familiar with your opponent, with their movements, their mind, in order to do effective violence, to cause effective destruction.
Or you could be completely indifferent and drone strike them from your office.
I mean you don't think that the people who do the drone strikes have just outsourced that process to a series of bureaucratic apparatuses? The man who pulls the trigger is the last step in that process, before that, they have people dedicated to watching and selecting targets.
I mean, I hope so. But considering how many wedding convoys have been drone-striked, I'm not so sure. Maybe it's true in Russia-Ukraine though.
I mean I think it's pretty likely that those wedding convoys are just being drone striked because they specifically want to inflict as much pain and displeasure as possible. Terror, one might say. "Strategic bombing". It might very well be accidental, but it might also just be the case that they pull the trigger and then apologize later.
You know that old saying, violence is always the answer. /s
Look, man, if you're up against someone who is, when it comes down to it, willing to use violence, and you aren't... if the issue is serious enough that no other resolution presents itself as an acceptable compromise, the one willing to use violence is gonna win over the one who isn't.
Violence is a hard and dangerous task to undertake, with uncertain prospects, especially in the context of societal action. But without the ability to resort to it in times of crisis, no rights are secure.
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