File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9905, message 120


Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 13:58:42 +1100
From: Andrew T Coombs <atc25-AT-student.canterbury.ac.nz>
Subject: Violence


I just checked out www.overthrow.
What a slow clunky visit it was too.  I have a real problem with 
anybody endorsing violence like the kind that went on at Columbine.
Sure I can identify with the alienation of those kids.  My high 
school years were absolute hell, I got abuse hurled at me everyday, 
butI didn't turn to a weapon to solve my problems.  It was awfully 
tempting sometimes but I found out the hard way that when a jock 
beats someone up it's a case of 'boys will be boys' but when me or 
any of my geeky friends hit back we had 'behavioural problems'.
Eventually I just got the fuck out of there and joined my local 
community college, which was run in far less of an authoritarian 
manner.  I found to my pleasant suprise that without all that forced 
uniformity people actually got on better.
Sure kids still formed their little social circles but it didn't seem 
to have the same bitter edge of elitism about it.
I could only ever endorse violence as self defense.  If someone 
attacks you physically then you have the right to hit back.  I got 
into a nasty situation last year.
Some goon was trying to interfere with an unconscious drunk girl at a 
party and I tried to stop him.  I required six stitches in my head 
after he bashed me repeatedly with a large piece of wood.
We must find an alternative to guns and bombs in a society that is 
run by arms dealers and military madmen.
Lorax.


   

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