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Being non-violent isn’t the same as being passive or polite;
it is a system of approach that is largely untried or untested. Which is why is
needs to be discussed in some detail.
Force is the way of the world,
and all of our systems are kept in place by force. As animal activist vegans we
can’t fight force with force. We have to be more subtle than that.
If enough activists are committed
to other approaches, if we are willing to consider and try them, we’ll see how
powerful non-violent action can be.
If there are ways to approach
this omnivore mind-set, using less ‘in-yer-face’ methods, as soon as they begin
to work we might hope for a snowballing effect. It’s a long shot, accepting
that violence in any form is ineffective and putting all our effort into
altering attitude rather than just people’s eating habits. By taking a punt on
‘truth-force’ we’re sure to find it slower, seeing as how we’re a tiny minority
dealing with a vast majority. But the results in the end will be more permanent
and have the power of setting a new attitudinal fashion. We can either set fire
to fur-farms or explore less destructive ways of exerting a much more subtle
pressure.
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