POSITIVE STATUS QUOISM

POSITIVE STATUS QUOISM ~ 66 ~ discoveries and technological progress. Neither educational institutions nor research institutes have ever been established by violent means. Iron’s conversion into machines and major city planning have all been done by the power of peace, not of violence. Right from ensuring social welfare to the setting up of the relevant infrastructure—all progressive measures have been carried into effect by peaceful strategies. Violence per se is destructive and no constructive result can ever come from a destructive act. This is the law of nature and as such is immutable. THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF ENMITY People generally hold that so and so community or nation is their enemy. Then, for most people, enmity becomes both the cause of and justification for taking to a course of violence. They take up an aggressive stance, openly or covertly, ostensibly to put an end to the enmity. But this is as misconceived a plan of action as any could be which has been devised on the supposition that war can be any kind of solution.