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Question 4:
Use of violence does not achieve just ends in the long run. What do you think about this statement?

Answer 1

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Generally it is believed that violence is an evil but sometimes violence is used to curb violence. Many times valency used to maintain sometimes valency used to remove tyrants and oppressors. Freedom struggle movement is generally justified even though they may use some violence. But the fact is that the use of violence does not achieve just ends in the long run. Violence means destruction. In the long run use of violence could turn out to be self defeating. That is why pacifists consider peace as a Supreme value. They are against the use of violence even par just ends. Mahatma Gandhi outrightly rejected the use of violence for the attainment of just ends. For Gandhiji means are as important as ends. He insisted on non violence and Satyagraha as the means for the resolution of a conflict. For Gandhiji Ahimsa was the supreme virtue. He was never prepared to eschew it any cost. Gandhiji said that non violence was the only realistic force in life. Pacifist advocate the mobilisation of truth and love to win the hearts and minds of the oppressors. Gandhiji has rightly said that good means must be adopted for good ends because in the long run even the means will have their effect on the end.

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Answer 2

It has often been asserted that violence — though it is an evil — can sometimes be a necessary prelude to bringing about peace.

It may be argued that tyrants and oppressors can be prevented from continuing to harm the populace only by being forcibly removed. Or the liberation struggles of oppressed people can be justified even though they may use some violence.

But resort to violence, however well meaning, could turn out to be self-defeating. Once deployed, it tends to spin out of control, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction.