Mahatma Gandhi, who synthesized the teachings of Buddha, Jesus, Thoreau and Toltstoy.....argued that there three responses to evil:
1. The lowest and least recommended response is to submit to evil, to surrender and do its bidding in abject docility.
2. The second response is to fight evil with evil, to oppose irt violently.
3. The best response to evil is nonviolent resistance, to fight against evil without adopting evil tactics. It takes the greatest courage of all, combined with unwavering intelligence and compassion, to stand up against evil without fighting it violently.
For people to resist the Nazis, they would have had to have stood en masse in the streets in front of the tanks and firing squads, letting themselves be killed rather obeying any order.
Gandhi's experience in South Africa and India had taught him that this action would eventually force the German soldiers to come to terms with the fact that they were not fighting an enemy but were commiting attrocities against all reason and all nature. Their evil command structure would then crumble, and their war would end.
Gandhi admitted that this high road of nonviolence would result in many casaulties before the killers relented, but he pointed out that violent resistance also would cause high numbers of casaulties; in fact, it destroyed the whole of Europe and the flower of entire generations.
Robert Thurman in Inner Revolutions (Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Real Happiness)
In Uganda there have been and continue to be a lot of evils done by the powerful. How the evils are dealt with creates the results we have today and continue to have.
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