Minor Violence Leads to Major Violence

History confirms that they do. Russia, for instance, has had many noted communists, soft-headed do-gooders, some of them doubtless sincere, 24 who advocated the all-responsible state. They could not or did not dare to foresee the inevitable consequence of their acts: Stalinism. Present-day literature is filled with their wails: "But I didn't mean this." Little does this wail ing avail them. Their bed of thorns has been devised with their own hands. Today they have no choice but to lie on it. Their day of choice has passed. That day was when alternatives could be weighed, and reason and the right to express it still existed. Alternative to Violence The alternative to violence is love. Love, as here used, refers to the application of the kindly virtues in human relations such as tolerance, charity, good sportsmanship, the right of another to his views, integrity, the practice of not doing to others what you would not have them do to you, and other attributes which result in mutual trust, vol untary cooperation, and justice. The distinction between violence and love, each in their extreme or pure form, was made in the Sermon on the Mount: Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.