Is political violence ever justified?

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Liberals more likely to say political violence sometimes justified: Poll -  Liberal streamers should be arrested for death threats against conservatives -

Chazmatazz269 · Accepted Answer

Justification is subjective. Every political activist and assassin has absolutely justified their choices before they took action. No exceptions.
I think you mean to ask whether or not in the grander scheme of socially acceptable behavior is political violence ever justified. “Ever” makes the answer to that question “yes”. We are literally in a period of time in which people are so polarized that people on both sides have said the country would prosper if the other side just died. I remember being shocked at how high the numbers were when Bill Maher reported on it. I can’t find the poll anymore or the clip. So it will take a cleverer internut than myself to reinforce that point. But i know what i heard and i know what i saw. Suffice it to say that roughly 50% of both democripps and rebloodlicans wish their political opponents would just “disappear”.
Maybe you’re just asking what our personal opinion is on the matter. I am very opposed to all violence with limited exception. Most of us who have survived and/or practiced violence are. People who think they want violence usually have no idea what that actually means.
This is also why i think that anyone who has never served in an active war zone should ever have any say over whether or not we go to war or with whom.

loveslongnails · Accepted Answer

Go on TikTok and ask what happened to the girl who simply posted a video of a Charlie Kirk rally. That's all she did, post it. No commentary, no narration, no analytics -- she just POSTED it and said nothing. Apparently, you magas don't like that much, because the girl started receiving rape and death threats from magas, demands to know where she lives so " we can come finish the job", and calls to her former employer. Former employer, so that's kind of funny, but the rest of it is not.

Political violence, if it's truly political only in nature, is not justified. But politics is often used as a safe term for things far more extreme, as it was in Nazi Germany 1939, and as it parallels today in the U. S.

FreyaRed · Accepted Answer

No. Wanting to harm people just because they dare to have different opinions is highly psychologically pathological

Kelley1 · Accepted Answer

It is always justified by the winners because they write the history.

DrPepper12 · Answer

YES 100 VIOLENCE IS ACCEPTABLE!!  And I quote: "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,  it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government , laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. ... But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right,  it is their duty, to throw off such Government,  and to provide new Guards for their future security." Rebellion is a sacred duty.

MuddyMole · Answer

If you could go back in time, and kill Hitler (before he started WW2) - and in doing so, save around 80 million lives - would you?
It's probably the most extreme case imaginable, but I think most people would say "yes" (reminds me of the old Cameron Diaz movie, "The Last Supper", which is worth a watch).
But Kelley1 is absolutely right - if Germany had won WW2, we'd be saying the same thing about assassinating Churchill and FDR.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

No, that's already several steps down on the slippery slope of failing politics...

andreasderjuengere · Answer

Violence in all it's versions can't be justified. Not politically, nor in military, nor governmentally, nor in a family, nor in a bar brawl -or else. It sometimes is necessary, though.

exitseven · Answer

Sometimes, in every conflict if you want to win, you have to fight back.

Joshydavid25 · Answer

No, not ever.. Unless there's a legit tyranny and dictatorship emerging..

grega239 · Answer

I could justify it to myself if i think about it. So sometimes yes, but who decides that?

worldscolide · Answer

No, and those that celebrate it are just as bad as those that pulled the trigger.

blackeagle007 · Answer

lol Trump suing NY times because they hurt his feelings. Got thrown out but watch, the corrupt U. S supremacy court will rule in trumps favor.

Dargil · Answer

When it is self defense, yes it is.

beefcakebradybatson · Answer

Most wars are political.

DarcyDuke · Answer

Nope

noohair · Answer

No, never...

jimmy2 · Answer

Vote tells the truth

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