Post by Administrator on Sept 1, 2012 19:36:50 GMT -5
It isn't possible to predetermine the appropriate response to aggression: it depends entirely upon those involved. All of life's interactions are mutual opportunities to teach and to learn: We learn our own vulnerabilities and we teach others theirs.
The only true victims are children and animals--and each thanks to us adult humans. But even in protecting them, it is only moral to use the minimum aggression necessary in order to protect all innocents from this aggressor. Any more than this invites a moral lesson in turn; any less forsakes other innocents in favor of one's own. Thus, even this bare minimum necessitates an active evaluation of the aggressor: has he yet learned.
It ought go without saying, then, that the aggressor must be identified and distinguished from the relatively innocent and the truly innocent. And if an aggressor cannot be taught, he ought not be left free to harm the innocent--until he can learn--and has been taught.
Those who neglect to protect themselves and their innocents will surely be taught to do it; thus they lose their innocence. For life imposes the same lessons upon us until we're properly taught.
The only true victims are children and animals--and each thanks to us adult humans. But even in protecting them, it is only moral to use the minimum aggression necessary in order to protect all innocents from this aggressor. Any more than this invites a moral lesson in turn; any less forsakes other innocents in favor of one's own. Thus, even this bare minimum necessitates an active evaluation of the aggressor: has he yet learned.
It ought go without saying, then, that the aggressor must be identified and distinguished from the relatively innocent and the truly innocent. And if an aggressor cannot be taught, he ought not be left free to harm the innocent--until he can learn--and has been taught.
Those who neglect to protect themselves and their innocents will surely be taught to do it; thus they lose their innocence. For life imposes the same lessons upon us until we're properly taught.