Look at some of the tactics used during Westward expansion. When the Native Americans were able to successfully defend territory, the settlers began waging war on the land. Destroying crops, slaughtering Buffalo, and spreading Smallpox. What would you do in response to having your whole way of life threatened with indiscriminate violence and terror?
Natives defending themselves against genocide/extermination isn't exactly the same thing as the hypothetical revolution that's always talked about here.
Let's consider our modern day police force. How should the separated children held captive by ICE feel about the officers who detained their family? Do you think they support the officers going home to their families while they suffer in desolation?
This isn't really relevant since the officers are the actual perpetrators deserving of retribution. I'm talking about the idea of automatically punishing their families as well.
This is very relevant but you haven't considered it yet. Our modern day police have already weaponized family separation. If it meant getting information, cooperation, or a confession, they will threaten your family. I would not tell any victim of these forms of terrorism how they should manage their reaction to this injustice.
I would hope the average person, even in that terrible scenario, would realize that killing people who didn't hurt them is wrong and wouldn't really achieve anything.
Yeah I'd hope the world could all hold hands and song kumbaya too but we live in hellworld and people are going to do what they have to do to stop devastation.
Look at some of the tactics used during Westward expansion. When the Native Americans were able to successfully defend territory, the settlers began waging war on the land. Destroying crops, slaughtering Buffalo, and spreading Smallpox. What would you do in response to having your whole way of life threatened with indiscriminate violence and terror?
Natives defending themselves against genocide/extermination isn't exactly the same thing as the hypothetical revolution that's always talked about here.
Let's consider our modern day police force. How should the separated children held captive by ICE feel about the officers who detained their family? Do you think they support the officers going home to their families while they suffer in desolation?
This isn't really relevant since the officers are the actual perpetrators deserving of retribution. I'm talking about the idea of automatically punishing their families as well.
This is very relevant but you haven't considered it yet. Our modern day police have already weaponized family separation. If it meant getting information, cooperation, or a confession, they will threaten your family. I would not tell any victim of these forms of terrorism how they should manage their reaction to this injustice.
I would hope the average person, even in that terrible scenario, would realize that killing people who didn't hurt them is wrong and wouldn't really achieve anything.
Have you ever spoken with a person who has been separated from their family by the state?
Yeah I'd hope the world could all hold hands and song kumbaya too but we live in hellworld and people are going to do what they have to do to stop devastation.