Author Topic: True Left Breakthrough: Ahimsa  (Read 6901 times)

SirGalahad

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Re: True Left Breakthrough: Ahimsa
« Reply #60 on: August 04, 2021, 02:15:12 am »
@rp I agree with the examples that AS lists in that blog comment. I concede that I would define those as cases of ahimsa perpetrated by someone ignoble. But I still disagree in labeling the Vandyke case as a case of ahimsa. If the perpetrator isn't doing it to stop initiated violence, then it isn't ahimsa. It's simply more initiated violence that just so happens to be perpetrated against someone we don't like. With the examples that AS provides of the individual retaliating against perpetrators of sexual violence, and the individual going out of their way to hunt predators, their reason for doing those things is at least out of an awareness of initiated violence. This probably isn't true for Vandyke. What happened in this case is more akin to karma. The boy got a taste of what he dishes out to fish (and possibly land animals) on a regular basis, and we should just leave it at that
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