Necessary Violence

If your deep desire is for peace,
you must understand,
there is no such thing as
senseless
unnecessary
violence.

Every impulse to violence has a worthy reason.

When you provide another rhyme for every reason,
when you see to these reasons' roots
THAT is when you serve peace.

Condemning violence will never serve peace. Calling it senseless, calling it unnecessary, we distance ourselves from every solution which would provide and maintain ongoing peace.

This is most harmful when we apply it to violence in the name of hate, calling hateful violence unnecessary. Hate is necessary violence because hatred necessitates violence.

How do naturally loving people come to be so full of hate? How has our society allowed and encouraged them to maintain and curate it? What nourishment would put us all back into love? That is the opportunity for peace, which we push away when we call violence senseless.

The reasons we need violence are the map to the ways and means of peace. Justifiable violence is often an earlier stand for peace and nourishment ignored. Unjustifiable violence is only the violence of those we refuse to understand.

We need peace to serve so that violence no longer seems reasonable.

We need to see the reason in every instance and structure of violence, if we wish to architect a world where it is no longer necessary.