Can you engage in force against yourself (ie battling your own erroneous thinking) to end violence against yourself and others?
The anarchist non-aggression principle is simply utilizing self-defensive force only (ie don’t initiate harm) versus violence comes from the word “violate” (ie you violate others by initiating the harm).
In the entry video, I think Larken Rose does a good job philosophizing about the two different ways of thinking and where it leads.
Most just don’t get it at all. Simply put, there is only:
Legal violence, which you support if you believe in government
Lawful force, which you support if you know government is illegitimate
Technically, even in war, one of the “rules of engagement” is you are NOT supposed to shoot first, BUT you have the right to defend yourself and return fire, if fired upon. If governments followed this rule precisely, there would NEVER be ANY wars. Think about it, and see if you can wrap your head around that idea.
It is because that idea is hard for humans to understand, governments always rationalize & justify aggression as self-defense! Do we remember, “weapons of mass destruction”???
Charlie Kirk was a big supporter of Trump. Below post shows how Trump is in on it too, despite his recent post that ALL vaccines are poison; that’s my current take anyway. We all want to be optimistic but……
