You know, all this big hoopla over 'peace loving people this' and 'peace loving people that' makes me just laugh. As soon as man wasn’t busy trying to eat without being eaten, he was busy trying to screw over the next guy.
In the fifty to seventy-five thousand years man has been on this planet, really, the only long runs of peace were administered by 'peace loving people' who held a club/spear/ sword/bayonet at the throat of those under them.
Even in this nation it is only really out of a respect of force (punishment from THE MAN) that we've gone, what 130 plus years?, since our last outbreak of 'notpeace'. Of course this isn’t counting the westward expansion in which a lot of folks enjoyed killing one another, the labor riots and social unrest of the 20s and 30s. The general stupidity that descended out of some flying-monkey's nether regions called
'liberalism' in the 1960s weren’t exactly peaceful either, I hear.
We put this huge moral high-ground on how great peace is, but when do we really enjoy peace? When we've got our work-boots on everyone else’s' necks. If we don’t, Lord knows that 'they' are plotting against us behind our backs, and if 'they' aren’t someone else surely is.
This brings me to the conclusion that peace ain’t' all that great. It usually means that someone is getting screwed over, and if we aren’t doing the screwing, we're bound to be the screwed.
I know parliamentary procedure, I know "Robert's Rules" and I know how this country is run. Even when its running how its supposed to be run, a fresh clip of 7.62x39 and the promise of a bayonet in the belly of those who are in power if they screw up does WONDERS for keeping things happy at least on the part of most of the citizenry. We the people so to speak.
Is this the action, by logical, scientific deduction, of a 'peaceful individual'? To take pleasure in promising a politician a full-metal-jacketed lobotomy, or a 7" steel intestinal adjustment?
No.
If you don’t take pleasure in making this promise, chances are, you probably wont back it up. If you do take pleasure in it, you are definitely not a 'peace loving person'.
In conclusion- screw being peace loving, its just a recipe for your own misery and/or death.
More power to the F*ing Indians for shoving red hot pokers down missionaries throats. Maybe they didn’t know it then, but sure as hell do they understand now: you're either in front of the sword or behind it. Such is the nature of man.