The arguement is as follows: In regaurds to the transferrence of political power and or law, the means of civil disobedience are more effectve when applied in a peaceful maner.
This has been proven in various instances since the displays of peaceful civil disobecience by David Thoreau.
The idea of a resolutionary is a new way of looking a peaceful political strategists. These "resolutionaries" are people like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. They employ the practice of peaceful disobedience in their actions towards unfair rule or law.
The reasons that peaceful civil disobedience is far more effective than violent civil disobedience are as follows:
Peace:the model for peace
When a group "revolts" against injustice they project a model of handling this injustice to the other people who are being unfairly ruled. If this is a violent practice, the situation grows further and further out of hand, by creating more violence by both the opressor and opressed, as presented in many instances throughout history. In a peaceful act of dsobedience the model is then to be nonviolent, and this projects a model of peace to the other people who are being opressed. This therefore can be seen as the "good role model." Peace breeds peace.
Violence leads to violence
Hypothetical statement: If violence is equal to 1 and an act of peace contains no violence, it is then equal to zero.
When a group of people revolt against their government with violence the government will retaliate. Therefore if peace is portrayed as 0 meaning zero violence, initial violence of the people is X, and the violence of retaliation by government is Y, logic can be portrayed as:(0
Peaceful disobedience can solve problems
As shown in the cases of MLK and Gandhi as well as others.
We need more resolutionaries in our culture
The more people promoting peace, the less people promoting violence, the better off humanity will be. Really there aren't a lot of peaceful resolutionaries in our culture, and the people who should be fulfilling this vital role are politicians who have to succumb to the will of the masses many of whom reject the ideas of total peace because of fear, and more importantly private interests who hold great amounts of economic and political prowess benefit from the labors of war.
REFUTING ARGUMENT
There is Logic in Violent civil disobedience.
Some political sientists like Stathis N. Kalyvas think that violence is a good means of solving political/societal problems. Although this has been proven time and time again throughout history, it is no measure of the effectiveness of violence over peace.
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