Today in our society we are prompted in different ways to believe that violence is strength. But that couldn't be further from the truth. That's because it doesn't take any special ability to choose to engage in violence with others and rather than it being a sign of strength, it's a sign of weakness in many ways; it's an admittance of defeat of your intellectual faculties.
It takes patience, wisdom, creativity, and humility, to try and resolve conflict without resorting to violence and these are not symptoms of weakness.
Peaceful conflict resolution should be a sign of strength.
Our society is rather unsophisticated in the way that it chooses to celebrate and continues to engage in endless war and violence in exercising its authority. Instead of opting to choose violence as a shameful and last resort, we seem all too eager to get involved in engaging in numerous conflicts around the world. And we rush to resorting to violence at the first sign of trouble.
But destroying families doesn't promote strength, neither does inflicting widespread collateral damage on various regions around the world. Bankrupting a nation over a corrupt and misguided foreign policy isn't a sign of strength either, trillions of dollars in debt signals the exact opposite--weakness.
Forgiveness, kindness, and mercy, take strength. But being angry, violent, and unforgiving, is rather easy. We are told that we can secure peace through strength and that this strength is represented by military might, but that path only fuels further violence. Killing innocent people and destroying communities doesn't promote peace, no matter what sort of a spin those initiating the scenario might want to give it.
We can thank the Federal Reserve for making the never-ending warfare a possibility and also our leaders who have driven multi-generations into debt by selling them on the idea that the endeavor was for their benefit. It might be easy to brush aside those who we have conflict with, as someone who is unreasonable and can never be communicated with etc, but if that is the stance that we take then the answer we will always resort to is violence. And when we continue to choose that path, we shouldn't be surprised when it never comes to an end.
Trying to solve disputes via force is an uncivilized method to use if we're looking to remedy various disagreements. Peace cannot be achieved or maintained by force.
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