An interesting opinion. Where I live, I have been in a water war. We need it survive in this desert and it has been denied us by the most powerful local residents. We survive by act of "VIOLENCE" and no other means. I pray to god for storms to keep us alive. We have lived in this situation for ten years. It has been very difficult beyond the understanding of people safe in a society where they turn on their tap and get water.
Oh just a few things that they have done:
- Sealed off all the springs
- Left one spring open and fed it into a drain pond.
- They are currently pumping the water back up the creek from which it should flow and draining it farther away.
- Many more things including shutting off a well to which our house is connected so that we could not use a well we were invited to use.
The ideal is nice but some people live in areas with gangs, murderers, thieves, vandals, and in the center of wars or battles. That one should be able to defend oneself is also a basic right, like the right to religion.
Again your thoughts on violence between men is interesting because like many herd animals men "duel" each other over women and I have seen women do the same. Usual animals in contests over mates do not kill one another but it can happen. We are mammals with herd instincts and is it wise to make laws that punish people for instinctual mating rituals even if they are violent?
That we are in several wars, or face other countries which could begin war with us at any given time is a given on the planet earth and not paranoia. It is why we have a department of defense and so does just about every other country on the planet because of real need.
Although violence is wrong as you state, is all violence a crime?
Jesus took a whip and beat the sinners in the temple. He kicked the invaders out where they should not have been. Do none else of us have the right to engage in the removal of known enemies from our presence?
In the United States, the right to defend oneself was a given for the longest time. These days an injustice regularly occurs where, gangsters of organized crime prey on the people, like cyber thieves preyed upon my accounts and destroyed their victims, sometimes even taking their lives.
If you are enslaved, do you have the right to free yourself? If a human being does not have that right to protect themselves that person is enslaved. The ability to defend oneself is now so convoluted, complex, and sabotaged that one could be sitting within reach of an assailant wielding a gun and shooting but found guilty for grabbing the little murderer by the throat.
This is a complex question but not really because the world is not an ideal place and one is mortal. Because the world is not an ideal place the rights of the individual which is the foundation of any society, country, or civilization must maintain a sanctity that allows the individual to defend themselves.
After all, there are plenty of mass murderers out there who stalk and wait to kill. This is by learned experience and the inability to defend oneself against them is a culture of death.
Thank you. The thing I've written is only a first pitch on top of my head.
If someone subject you to violence then you have the right to defend yourself. It is implied. You should not initiate violence imply that you can use violence if you're not initiating it. If not my guide line would have said you should never use violence.
This doesn't solve all the resources problem but is a better system than the one we are currently under.
sounds sort of like this not so friendly experience...
atmospheric water generators...?
They produce about a cup full a day. Proper prayer is a positive thing and works well.