User blog comment:Griever0311/Ask A Marine/@comment-1260687-20100316142222

"Apepa 11:29, 2010 March 16 - I don't think any sane person could think that violence is never necessary or morally justifiable."

Unrepentant, unyielding violent action is the only course of action that is acceptable or recognizable by despots, tyrants, and criminals. If you're walking down an alley and see someone mugging or raping someone else, you don't ask them "pretty please" stop, you wouldn't ask someone who broke into your house and is threatening your family to "kindly step back" and walk away. Diplomacy only goes goes so far, interpersonally and on the international stage. And when words coming from people like you inevitably fail to stop a situation that's already gone far past critical because some dumb fuck just doesn't give a shit anymore, the world turns to people like me to produce a tangible result.