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psychop_rex (psychop_rex) wrote in scans_daily,

I think this would have been a good deal more powerful if it had been published a few months ago, before the election/inauguration. Don't get me wrong - I'm not one of those people who think that all is suddenly sweetness and light because Obama is in office - the country is still pretty messed up, and our hands still far from clean - but during most of the Bush years, there was a sense of despair and anger amongst a large chunk of the US (and world) populace that this comic would have addressed very well. Now, however, I think we're a bit more optimistic than that. (Of course, this speech might be set back then.)
Personally, while I totally get what Savior 28 is talking about, I don't think giving up violence entirely is necessarily the answer to lasting peace. Violence can be a useful, and sometimes a necessary, tool, and while I thoroughly applaud people like Martin Luther King and Ghandi who used non-violence to win their battles, that is not a tactic that always works - sometimes you HAVE to use violence, or be killed. I think a better solution would be to focus on DEFENSIVE violence instead of offensive - violence when you're defending someone's life and/or property strikes me as a perfectly reasonable tactic. It's not 'dividing things into good guys and bad guys', it's acknowledging the fact that some people cannot be reasoned with, at least in certain situations, and in those situations, a swift punch to the jaw can save lives. Peace means the absence of war, not violence - you can't get rid of violence, you can only avoid it when such a thing is possible and use it morally when it's not. That's what being a superhero is all about, right?