Violence and Morality

Martin Luther King Jr called violence immoral, which just goes to prove what a lying hypocritical old fraud he was. He paid taxes to the American state that uses violence to enforce it’s laws, protect its citizens and pursue wars. Pacifism for all it’s claim to a higher moral principle is self-indulgent hypocrisy and cowardice. Anyone who tells you they don’t believe in violence is a liar because if they really believed violence was immoral, they would believe that resisting rape or punishing the rapist is immoral. If you don’t believe in violence, you don’t believe in jail.

We all believe in violence to some degree, even pacifists — Martin Luther King Jr was a woman beater, Gandhi was a warmonger, and the Dalai Lama is sadistic, terrorist and mass-murderer — every civilisation since the dawn of man has been founded on violence and the human capacity for violence has stopped us going the way of the dodos.  So why the bullshit pretence that violence is immoral or undesirable?

Over the years, I’ve killed, maimed and wounded, and I’ve made a pretty decent crust doing it. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t go around hurting people for the fun of it, but if someone tries to hurt me or mine, what else am I’m going to do?

There is nothing immoral in inflicting violence on those who would inflict violence on you. And anyone who tells you violence solves nothing doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Violence solves quite a lot.