Peaceful Resistance Research Paper
Peaceful resistance is impossible, especially in this modern society. Peaceful organization turns to riot even when good intentions are present. Inaction and guiltmongering do nothing to help society. It is sad to see people who believe they are doing all the good in the world turn to these methods and use violence though convinced it is really peaceful. "Peaceful" protest accomplishes nothing. American government is predicated on this. The only things that change are violence and political action. Asking nicely saved nobody, and the American Revolution is proof of this. The colonists asked for a long time for fair representation in Parliament but no change came and, in fact, increases in taxes and injustices happened. It was not until the injustices came to a head in gunfire that there was a change, which was an overthrow of the British Empire and the Americans took control of their own lives and governed themselves. Peaceful resistance did nothing.
Peaceful resistance is a farce. A mirage of niceness changing something. To say it has a neutral impact is as positive as it can go, and the impact is, …show more content…
Whereas peaceful protest weakens the citizenry, violent protest forms it into savagery. There is a stark difference between strength and animalistic savagery. Just as being weak weakens society, so too does savagery. Savagery weakens society by corroding the moral and cultural bedrock of it. By protesting with violence, society is broken down into just another tribal organization of non-thinking members. By refusing to reason, intellectual progress and that which this great society was based on, a factual and intellectual discourse between reasonable people, is only a memory, a marginal thing of antiquity. When discourse and logic fall, so too does society. This is evident throughout time, and will continue to be evident. Strong, intelligent societies survive and the weak societies
Peaceful resistance is a farce. A mirage of niceness changing something. To say it has a neutral impact is as positive as it can go, and the impact is, …show more content…
Whereas peaceful protest weakens the citizenry, violent protest forms it into savagery. There is a stark difference between strength and animalistic savagery. Just as being weak weakens society, so too does savagery. Savagery weakens society by corroding the moral and cultural bedrock of it. By protesting with violence, society is broken down into just another tribal organization of non-thinking members. By refusing to reason, intellectual progress and that which this great society was based on, a factual and intellectual discourse between reasonable people, is only a memory, a marginal thing of antiquity. When discourse and logic fall, so too does society. This is evident throughout time, and will continue to be evident. Strong, intelligent societies survive and the weak societies