The Upside of Actual Violence, by Tim (xrugger) Stebbins

As they always have, for better or worse today’s conflicts will be resolved by violence. From Tim (xrugger) Stebbins at theburningplatform.com:

What follows are the musings of a man full to the neck with the blathering of the relentlessly virtuous statists currently seeking to bestride the world. I neither propose nor condone violence. I only seek to point out the possibilities inherent in its measured use. Let’s begin.

There is an old mantra that’s been puked up over the years by various dolts that “violence never solved anything.” What utter and complete bullshit. This sort of sophistry is usually hawked up like a hairball by those soft and squishy types incapable of actual violence. To paraphrase a meme currently floating around the internet:

“If you claim to be peaceful, but you are not capable of great violence, You’re not peaceful, you’re harmless.”

Now, I neither know nor care about the origins of that particular quote. The truth of it should be obvious to any person whose brain has not been reduced to a gangrenous clot from marinating in the sewage spewed by the majority of the modern media. The truth of human history is that violence has been, and will continue to be, the main arbiter of the myriad conflicts endemic to the human condition.

There is, however, an important distinction that needs to be made. While violence has always been the sword cutting through the Gordian Knot of human conflict, it does this in two ways: Either actual violence forces the warring parties to the negotiating table where conflict is, at least temporarily, resolved, or overwhelming violence utterly destroys one participant in the conflict and terms are imposed on the defeated. These standards apply to individuals, groups, and nation states. In either scenario, violence is integral to the resolution of human conflict. That may be a sad commentary on the shortcomings of the human race, but it is an undeniable fact of history.

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