[an orange character is driving a bulldozer, facing a house]
I am going to bulldoze your house

[a yellow character is shocked]

[yellow asks politely, hands clasped]
Could you please not do that?

[orange, pushing the bulldozer’s controls, answers]
NO!

[yellow walks away from their house, looking dismayed]
Well, I guess I tried to do everything I could
Too bad

[orange smiles smugly as they bulldoze yellow’s house]

https://thebad.website/comic/respectable_resistance

  • Dale@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    This is ignoring nuance of individual cases. It’s mental gymnastics to justify a blanket rejection of violence. This “stupid” cartoon isn’t that far from real world examples, and in this cartoon you would be justified in violence to save your home. If your family (or entire culture) was inside you would even be morally obligated to do so.

    • sunsofold@lemmy.zip
      11·
      18 hours ago

      The cartoon is stupid. It’s a strawman of ‘violence is bad,’ that suggests anyone who says so is a true pacifist, or recognition of violence as a problem is somehow equating a slap on the wrist with a sadistic rape/murder. No one actually believes that. It’s just negative partisanship to let people feel special for being brave enough to say ‘murder is bad.’ It’s morally pretentious BS that insults the intelligence of its readers, regardless of their views on violence.