Quote Originally Posted by ChubRock View Post
He who smelt it dealt it. If they question us, then they must question themselves. Violence never solved anything that couldn't have been solved over a pint and a fine egg.
While I'm generally inclined to agree, I am steadfast in my belief that until all people are rational and therefore courteous (The Day of Judgement?), violence must remain an appropriate and necessary aspect of the vocabulary of social discourse, if for no other reason than to demonstrate the vagaries of poor manners to the uncouth. Just as capturing stones is not the object of a game of GO, the rules thereof shape the logic of efficient play. The absolute insulation of society (especially among the young) from violence is a feature of what I have termed "over-civilization", and it is a cancer on the face of the human race liable to condemn us, collectively, either to self-destruction or regression as a species.