At what point are the scales of justice tipped where good men will raise up and put a stop to the destruction bad men perpetrate on others? The history of humankind has shown that we have a high tolerance for inaction when the action could be minimal but instead we wait right up until the critical point before we come into action. In the meantime the scars to our conscious continue to grow and all the distractions in life cannot fully obliterate them from our memories. The reality that peace comes about through the strength to defend it has been lost on the ones who see it as a contradiction. Surely force to keep peace is not a new concept. The world wars in the previous century exhibit themselves for all to learn, yet the continued idea that somehow if we all just ignore atrocity it will eventually go away. The "Ostrich" effect. I abhor the use of violence in general but in specific areas of holocaust and annihilation being perpetrated there can be no other course than the will and the strength to stop it. There are those humans who are psychologically bent toward complete lack of empathy. When these individuals or groups get power and unleash their egoism on the general public is when their psychopathy must be defended against. There is no other solution to the madness of destruction other than to subdue those who are responsible. Violence as a means to protect peace is reasonable when the value of doing nothing is worse. None of us civilized persons would ever wish harm to anyone but to stand back and do nothing in the face of harm is not to be allowed!
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