"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral"

[Nye Bevan]

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
Through violence you may murder the liar,
but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.
Through violence you may murder the hater,
but you do not murder hate.
In fact, violence merely increases hate.
So it goes.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness:
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[99Forever]

1. Are you referring to ...

.. the slow moving violence of crushing poverty being perpetrated on the 99%, killing uncountable thousands each year?

Or the violence of jackbooted thugs with badges perpetrate on any of us that dare to take to the streets seeking justice?

Or is "violence" only bad when we are forced to resort to it because NOTHING ELSE WORKS?