When is political violence justified?

[CountDeMoney]

It's Mono. His entire political philosophy is based on his own personal sense of comfort.

The Dao of La-Z-Boy

[jimmy olsen]

It's Mono. His entire political philosophy is based on his own personal sense of comfort.

The Dao of La-Z-Boy

Mono always seemed more of a Confucius fan. What with the whole meritocracy and heirarchy thing he had going on.


https://youtu.be/0N_RO-jL-90

[Lettow77]

A successful servile war would have produced immense improvements in the South, and it was the duty of every human being to support it.

Yes, with proper application and a little luck, they might have improved to the level of Haiti.

[Grinning_Colossus]

A successful servile war would have produced immense improvements in the South, and it was the duty of every human being to support it.

Yes, with proper application and a little luck, they might have improved to the level of Haiti.

Haiti itself would have improved if there'd been a political constituency in the US that had opposed the extraction of extortionate debt payments. Oh, the world that might have been.

[Monoriu]

So when you said 'political violence is never justified' did you mean for everybody or just yourself?

Everybody except the state 

[Valmy]

So when you said 'political violence is never justified' did you mean for everybody or just yourself?

Everybody except the state 

Really? So if the state is doing something bad you propose a mass exodus? Interesting.

[Eddie Teach]

So when you said 'political violence is never justified' did you mean for everybody or just yourself?

Everybody except the state 

That's not a British attitude.

[Valmy]

Haiti itself would have improved if there'd been a political constituency in the US that had opposed the extraction of extortionate debt payments. Oh, the world that might have been.

Haiti didn't have to accept that deal. But in any case it was not like the country was just going great before they took that on.

[DGuller]

Political violence is justified when it lets you take power successfully.

[Oexmelin]

It's Mono. His entire political philosophy is based on his own personal sense of comfort.

The Dao of La-Z-Boy

Or perhaps Lao-Zi Boy ?

[CountDeMoney]

It's Mono. His entire political philosophy is based on his own personal sense of comfort.

The Dao of La-Z-Boy

Or perhaps Lao-Zi Boy ?

You are wise in the ways of the Far Least.

[Jacob]

Pretty sure that Confucianism recognizes the legitimacy of political violence against the state in specific circumstances - i.e. when the state is unjust or illegitemate. Don't pin Mono's moral cowardice on Laozi.

[Zanza]

Germans have a constitutional right to "resist" (same word that is used to describe Stauffenberg's attempt to kill Hitler) everybody who tries to abolish our constitutional order if there is no peaceful way. 

[Monoriu]

Really? So if the state is doing something bad you propose a mass exodus? Interesting.

People have migrated for millennia.  I didn't invent the concept 

[viper37]

Pretty sure that Confucianism recognizes the legitimacy of political violence against the state in specific circumstances - i.e. when the state is unjust or illegitemate.

we all recognize that.  it's the part about unjust or illegitemate that we don't agree on.