In your own opinion..?

Question

How much violence is justified in attempting to achieve a better society?

Answer 1

None, filth speaks for itself. We don't live a perfect world so there are people who cannot appropriately express their various issues and resort to violence and hatred since it's so easy. Religions and governments have been looking for ways to justify violence since man's inception but it's done little to suppress or eliminate this savageness of ours.

We glorify violence in the media and wage long bloody wars, but it has done nothing but usher in a temporary peace.

Just remember "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind".

Answer 2

If more people followed Buddhism, there'd be a better society without the violence.

Answer 3

Answer:  (as already stated) ''As much as it takes'' ~ although, quite Which or Whose standards we would fight and settle for as a 'Better Society', who would we all vote for on the Committee for Better Standards, how long would they serve, would they be paid, how much would they be paid, how much power would they have, who would they be answerable to....? etc....!

Me thinks and me believes that your question is as old as the hills, has been asked / raised and fought over ( and costing someone else their lives ~ 15 Million Chinese, 30 Million Russians, about 5 Million Laotians etc ....my figures may be suspect or arguable here, but they are the ball-park type ) many times.

And even after it is all over and done (somewhere), up jumps some 'individual' who really has very little if any concept of the historical background to the question that they then ask.

As the adage says something about the dangers of 'History repeating itself'!

Sash.

Answer 4

As much as it takes... ;)

Answer 5

Kill them ALL.

Answer 6

We could follow gandhi's approach and solve every thing with out violence, or we could be like the church and the US and just hit people we don't like.

Do you know what the likely hood of achieving peace is if we fight for it?

You can't do something for the opposing reason.

Answer 7

Personally I think that violence just breeds more violence and in the end for the problem to be solved or ended people must talk to each other or communicate in some way. So I don't think that violence of any kind is justified to make a society better.

Answer 8

Hmmm, that's a rather provocative question.

My knee-jerk response begins with seeking a clarification regarding "better society."

Assuming that a "better society" is any improvement over the current society, then it seems reasonable to first determine what makes the current status of society in need of improvement.  With that in mind, I'm going to use "Crimes Against Society" as the basis for my response with the following components reflecting data from the United states (only) as of 2006 with an estimated population of 300 million people:

(1) Murder:  17,034

(2) Rape:     92,455

(3) Aggravated Assult: 862,947

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, as of December 31, 2006, American prisons and jails held about 2.3 million inmates ... a quadrupling of inmates since 1980.  About 93% of all prisoners are male.  The United States has the highest documented per capita rate of incarceration of any country in the world.

It seems evident that violence is a societal problem in America and that condoning acts of violence in response to an already existing act of violence does not improve the current situation while, simultaneously, making it more likely that still further violence will accrue from the original act of violence (a domino-effect).

Just as the often-heard but mostly unexamined cliche of "Sometimes you need a war to secure the peace" is untenable in an objective argument, so is (in my view) the notion that violence is justified to achieve a better society.

The history of civilization overflows with the horrid accounts of man's inhumanity to man (yes, women also) and the prevailing model from the beginning -and currently in use- is to confront violence with even more violence ... the result?  A cycle of violence that has reproduced more and more violence since the dawn of humanity.

Maybe a 100-year effort at diplomacy, collaboration, and brain-based problem-solving and decision-making (over brawn) will be a start and serve to provide a ray of hope for the world's future generations.

Answer 9

no violence is justified.

Answer 10

why dont we just blow up the world

that would solve all of our problems :D