Nonviolent Protesting

[apache_blanca]

Originally Posted by Aquaplant

It doesn't work like that, because the change has to be in a massive enough scale to matter, because single individuals doing few things here and there doesn't mean anything, because there will always be surplus willing to take their place in the system.

right... What can you do to guarantee this massive change?

There's this thing called culture, I think you've heard of it? Granted I'm rather individualistic myself, but that has only caused problems for me in life. Society works on conformity, and the more you deviate from the norm, the less useful you are. I don't think anyone of us wants to feel useless, so we at least try to follow the masses, some more than others.

some more - some less... I agree about conformity though, but still - times change, so does culture, & sometimes it is necessary - or at least advisable - reconsider certain points of view.

Dead protesters are also silent, and that's the way they will eventually end up if they choose the passive method. There will never be peace unless we learn not to oppress one another, and while many submit to such cruelty because they simply have no other choice, there will always be those who won't take it anymore.

silent doesn't mean passive. That silence in the OP must have been pretty unnerving for the chancellor! Imagine yourself walking thru the corridor of silence? I wouldn't like to...

As much as I hate brute force, partly because of the jealousy that I don't possess any, but mainly because no matter what you intend to achieve, you can usually get it done with violence, because when people cause you problems you can't solve, you simply remove the source of the problem

usually - yes, but it doesnt have to be always. If we were always doing the same thing we would be still in the Middle Ages.