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Violence
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War . . . is an act of violence intended to
compel our opponent to fulfill our will.
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-Karl von Clausewitz
On War, 1911
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Today carnage comes with a catchy title,
splashy graphics, regular promos, and a reactionary passage of legislation.
Reporters perch like vultures on the balconies of hotels for a hundred
miles around. Cameras jockey for shocking angles, as news anchors race to
drench their microphones with the tears of victims. Injury, shock, grief
and despair shouldn't be brought to you by sponsors. That's pornography.
It trivializes the tragedy it abuses. It abuses vulnerable people, and maybe
worst of all, it makes the unspeakable seem commonplace.
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-Charlton Heston
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Civilized life depends upon the success of
reason in social intercourse, the prevelance of logic over violence in
interpersonal conflict.
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-Juliana Geran Pilon
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