Capitalists say we all have the choice not to work for the machinery, we might not like the results, but we have that choice. We can be wage slaves or we can starve.<br>(I'm not trying to call you or anyone else a capitalist, merely illunimating an analogy)
<br>just as I (perhaps we?) critize the choice between wage slavery and starvation as no choice at all,<br>I critize any choice where one option is personal suffering or death as no choice at all.<br>Certain sections of the population (myself included) and certain given times have the ability to choose non-violence without the penalty of injury or death, and some of us, at certain times do not.
<br>This is the priviledge I was speaking about, perhaps I should have made myself clearer in that I do not accept a "choice" as valid when one option is death.<br>-Dan<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 1/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">turtle</b> <<a href="mailto:turtle@zworg.com">turtle@zworg.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>Boston Critical Mass <<a href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org">list@bostoncriticalmass.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> ------=_Part_3840_1892660.1136295298411<br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
<br>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable<br>> Content-Disposition: inline<br>><br>> the hegemony of "non-violence" is bothersome.<br>> the struggle we are engaged in has been violent for a long time, and it is
<br>> lucky for us that we have the priviledge of choosing non-violence.<br>> -Dan<br><br>Care to eloborate on your thoughts that the choice of being non-violent<br>is a priviledge? I, myself, can't imagine ever not having that choice.
<br> But then again I believe in free will, and maybe you don't. I suppose<br>if I had damage to the region of my brain I might lose my ability to<br>control myself, but otherwise, I always have a choice to act out in<br>
anger and fear or not. The results might not be to my liking (I might<br>die), but I do have that choice.<br><br>-Turtle<br><br>--------------------------<br>"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we
<br>seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must<br>pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." - Martin Luther King Jr.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Boston Critical Mass mailing list
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