Wow, @dizzybee - as @artemislives says in her comment, it's great to see that logical thought can be an anathema to the blind, emotional responses that cause violence in the first place. Such a well thought out response, and I'm thrilled you are back with your amazing writing which has SUCH a place on this platform.

I wonder what the Stoics would have thought of Eastern thought, and the practice of ahimsa and non attachment?