"If you kill a killer the number of killers in the world is unchanged"
"So I should kill multiple killers"
"Hol' up"
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2026
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"But I can't just KILL Ozai! wHaT aBoUt wHaT tHe mOnKs tAuGhT mE?" -The "hero" of the story lmfao
(yes I get it, it's supposed to be a kids show, but still...)
Yeah instead he did the moral thing… permenantly disabling him?
Naw write then a STRONGLY worded letter. That would have fixed Hitler and Mussolini.
Write a strongly worded letter, and then tell your nonspeaking autistic manservant that you want to become a superhero. You can pretend to be a cowardly dandy and your assistant can pretend to be deaf with an intellectual disability.
Okay here's an opinion that'll get me down voted to oblivion but here goes:
Violence is like symptom management. If you're hurting, seriously injured etc. get that morphine. But keep using it and it becomes dependency. It's a short term solution to one specific problem and rarely solves the underlying causes. Unless you can do that, you'll be back to using violence as symptom management. Only the next time you'll need more of it, just like heroin.
Famously, the human rights gained by movements using violent tactics, such as the abolitionists, suffragettes, the civil rights movement, the ANC, were all very short-lived. Hollow victories, all.
No wonder states rarely solve problems! Their heroin usage is symptom management! /s
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That's about the least Iroh thing to say. Congrats for the quality shitpost I guess.
It's not the least Iron thing to say. Even he said "Azula is crazy, and she needs to go down."
Maybe not kill, but definitely take down and away from wider society to live in a dark, small place.
It’s Iroh-nic, don’t you think?
This is silly. Everyone knows, historically, you stop opressors by asking nicely. Maybe go into the street in a funny costume or something, organize a singalong. Violence is what the baddies do.
sips tea Ah … come, sit with me for a moment. The tea is hot, and such questions are best answered slowly, with a warm belly.
It is natural to feel anger when one has been wronged. Even the gentlest river becomes violent when dammed for too long. But we must be careful, my friend, not to mistake the force of our feelings for the wisdom of our actions.
You ask why one should not kill their oppressors. The answer is not because they are strong, nor because they deserve mercy, nor because the world would punish you. It is because when you choose to do evil in the name of justice, you quietly invite that evil to live inside you. And once it is settled there, it does not leave easily.
You may believe you are striking only your enemy, but violence has a poor sense of direction. It spills into the soul, changing the person who wields it. The moment you decide that a “good reason” excuses a cruel act, you teach your heart that cruelty can be justified. Soon, it will begin to justify itself.
Oppression is a heavy chain, but hatred forges a second one, but this time around your own spirit. If you destroy another to feel free, you may discover that freedom never arrived, and only the destruction remained. True victory is not standing over your enemy’s body. True victory is refusing to become what hurt you. It is choosing a path that allows you to look at yourself in the mirror without turning away. The right reasons lose their meaning when they are carried by wrong actions. Like tea made with poisoned water, no matter how fine the leaves, the cup will only bring sickness.
So no - do not kill your oppressors. Not for their sake, but for yours. Because the most important battle is not against them, but against the part of yourself that believes goodness can be built from blood.
This is a fantasy land take that has no basis in reality or human history. At some point, it becomes a matter of physical well being for yourself and those around you. Telling people to just suck it up and take a beating/killing for the benefit of their "soul"...my god. Rejoin the real world buddy. It can be a scary place, but at least it's real, not whatever bizarro world you are speaking from.
You let bullies walk on you, and they will keep doing it. The only thing that will stop them is letting them know that they will pay a real price if they keep at it. Trying to spin this "peace at all costs" worldview is intellectually dishonest and counterproductive.
Nah, fuck that. What are they supposed to do? Roll over and continue being oppressed? End your oppression not just for your sake but for the sake of everyone else whom they may oppress too.
Yeah, those in power always preach peace to preserve the status quo. But what about the suffragettes? The black Panthers? What about the Italian resistance? What about the Warsaw ghetto uprising?
Sometimes it's not about our souls, not about our own psychical wellbeing. It's about the liberation of all. About justice. About making the bastards pay. About showing the world that there's a limit to what people can be made to do and suffer.
Violence is the last resort of the desperate, no doubt. It's not fun. It does taint. It's fucking tragic.
But we are living in increasingly desperate times. Who can deny that? And its just not about us as individuals anymore. That's the message here.
This is beautiful and I want to agree with you.
Mostly I disagree that violence taints your soul permanently. I believe it is this line of thinking that has led the repetition of violence throughout history. Those who wish to do harm are never treated with strongly enough and so they persist. They are readily allowed access to others to harm as they please. Perhaps we can stave off states doing it with the right government types but there will be those in the general populace that desire harm for others and they will strive to upend that government at all times.
My opinion is: oppression deserves reciprocal violence an order of magnitude above and immediately.
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Cor, it’s a good job Hitler killed himself instead of somebody having to live with that evil, init?
Thanks Uncle. I'll meditate on your wisdom.
Can't kill your oppressors if they kill you first! You won't have to worry about ectoplasm-based chains when you're dead!
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I mean, stripping oppressor of his power and letting him live "normally" is the cruelest thing you can do for such pitty people.
It's the fair thing to do. They get a choice. Best case they learn to live like everyone else, and maybe do something good. In which case, great! Worst case they show they can't be let out in society, and are sent to prison. In which case, hey at least they got a second chance, which is more than what their victims got.
Napoleon time
but i want a jar of their teeth :c
why not both?
Bruh, you dont even have to use violence, if everyone stopped working, paying taxes and consuming anything that the bare minimum for survival, the country would collapse in less than a month.
How many times exactly has that happened in history? Revolutions are famously not peaceful. Not that they shouldn't happen, they absolutely should, but the people in power don't just go "oh shucks, guess I'll give it all up!"
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Cycles of violence.
if you have oppressors, chances are that cycle is already alive and well without your input anyway.
Yeah. The question is whether to work to continue the cycle or work to break it.
all of the cycle breaks in the bits of history i know of required violence at some point.
Have there been cycle breaks? I'm not trying to be combative but I am curious to know what examples you have in mind. I don't think human history has ever seen a break in the cycle of violence as I would define it. The active bloodshed has waxed and waned over the centuries, or at least moved from place to place, but violent oppression has been alive and malignant in every chapter of human history that I can think of.
that's sort of my point.
dissolve the divine rights of kings? blood.
estabilishing representative democracy? blood.
getting ourselves the right to rest 2x a week? blood.
and over time our lives end up a little more comfortable if we do things right doesn't it?
look, i'm wimpy and weak. i absolutely don't want physical violence and i'd be the first to die, but we don't defend ourselves from theirs with flowers and arguments.
we can't salaried work our way out of the mess that is drawing up for us in the horizon, that's just not how this works.
How does one overthrow the shackles of oppression without violence?
That's a hard question and I don't know. I don't know that a strictly nonviolent movement can work if there's a critical mass of oppressors who believe that those they oppress deserve to be oppressed. I think the theory of nonviolent resistance is built on an assumption that, deep down, we all know that what oppressors do is wrong and that there is a contrivance of convenience that allows oppressors to except themselves, or simply ignore that knowledge. I don't know if that deep down knowledge is universal. But I know from personal experience it's quite easy to ignore it, especially when one's own life is hard, or when the oppression is mostly hidden from view, or simply when the problem of oppression seems overwhelming and unassailable. I believe that most people who don't try to resist oppression either disapprove but feel helpless in the face of it, or they benefit from it and therefore try to justify it, or usually a combination of the two. If that belief is correct, then the answer I think is one of education. Give people the tools they need to fight nonviolently: Educate about local elections, form citizen watchdog groups, show how propaganda uses common tropes to reinforce ideas about the "inherent criminality" of the oppressed, teach the history of how oligarchs use flunkies like trump to implement favorable policies while deflecting blame onto minorities, and the million other things that people need to know to have a well functioning society. Use shame to dislodge the privileged from their comfortable niches and force them to answer for the consequences of their actions or lack thereof.
I think, especially now in America, this seems so far away that even to seriously consider it seems fanciful. Maybe it is. Maybe we're at the point where violence is necessary to jerk us back from the cliff of autocracy. It certainly seems like trump and his goons want a fight, and it seems likely that sooner or later they'll get one. But I don't think violence can be solved with violence, and even if America goes through some violent convulsions I don't think they'll end us in a place where we aren't doing violence to each other. Nonviolence requires nonviolence.
So you hope the oppressors gain a conscience. Good fuckin luck with that. Violence to enforce is rarely justified, violence to defend usually is. Pacifism has never gained rights or prevented the loss of them.
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