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Wed 14 Sep 2022
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CAPTAIN'S GEMLOG
ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST WARSHIP SEMAPHORE
2022.09.14 @ 1500hrs
I was talking to a lovely hippie friend of mine, and he put to me that he's non-violent and a pacifist. And a parent. And I put it to him that, like any thought - because I had also thought the same thing before becoming a parent - but as soon as I'd become a parent, I realised that I wasn't non-violent, I was merely anti-violence, and that there would absolutely be times where I felt it would be appropriate to deploy violence - Limited, like, limited times - I wouldn't just be happy to whenever, but I could imagine times when it would be wholly appropriate.
And I'm not sure he thought about it like that. I think it always sort of thought about violence as possibly like only a political tactic rather than - which is what it is - physically imposing a demand on somebody else. In in my, ideally, the only way I need to use it is to physically impose my demand of safety on other people to make sure that our behaving themselves in a safe manner.
But what was curious during the conversation was that he hadn't considered it useful at all. When, I guess, we can see that physically imposing a demand - like safety - or like, in this case like personal bodily safety - Or it could be imposing a demand of safety on behalf of somebody else, that actually it just sort of just greys that line between not wanting to use violence, but understanding that we may feel it appropriate.
So then the question is - an entirely personal one - which is "Where is that line?"
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