RJA #11a

A wise man once said, “There was never a good war, or a bad piece.” Benjamin Franklin was of course one of the most brilliant minds of the past few hundred years (Peace Quotes). This however is a very broad statement that could be contemplated for generations and generations to no end. So instead of babbling on about peace and war, this paper will focus on peaceful civil disobedience. More specifically the strengths of a nonviolent civil disobedience when compared to a violent revolutions like those which have led our planet into new modes of thought for hundreds of years. Peaceful resolutions are better for the people of a country which is having social/political problems than violent revolutions, because they harm far less people, are dignified and truthful, as well as follow law and general moral code. This is not to say that all civil should or will end today, and that peace will always prevail over violence. In some situations there are no chances of rationalizing with a people or group of people and violence can become necessary, but when it comes down to the ideologies that most rational free thinking people hold to be relevant, violence will be more detrimental to a given people than peace.