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Personal Writing: A Path Seldom Chosen - Solving Problems Without Violence

I recall an incident back in my elementary school days, when I was
on the playground during an afternoon recess. My friends and I were
intensely involved in a emotional game of basketball. I had been playing
miserably, so after my fourth brick, I spiked the ball, super bowl
touchdown style against the solid pavement. It began a long process of
ricocheting off the walls of the coverd area and amidst it's air born
flight it somehow managed to collide with the jawbone of a rather thuggish
looking 5th grader. At this time, an ominous dark cloud of rage began
spouting from the disgruntled upperclassmen's nostrils. A large crowd
began chanting, "fight! fight! fight!" that was slowly ...

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I told him if he didn't
disfigure me, that I would offer to be his own personal reusable toothpick
for as long as he wished.
Violence and nonviolence are two very effective ways to solve
problems, but for people like me whose brains are stronger than their
fists, nonviolence seems much more practical and less harmful. I'm not a
tree hugging' hippy or a follower of Gandhi. I simply believe, and
history supports my beliefs, that violence and nonviolence are two
strategies of solving a problem. The flaw of violence is theoretically
you're trying to counteract a negative with a negative, or as an old saying
goes “fighting fire with fire”. What progress is made from this?, Do you
not fight fire with water? The practical thing to do is to reach for a
bucket filled with water, not for a flaming torch.
History has shown us clear instances which support my beliefs.
For example, take the black civil rights movement where a young Baptist
minister named Martin ...

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Added: 12/8/2006 05:47:22 AM
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