There are plenty of troubles with violence, most of them well known and appreciated. Add to them the insult to time. Violent punishment spits over its shoulder at the past and all the chances it offered to stock up on ways of handling rough times. The present, that short span in which all of one's personae huddle and choose strategy before running out onto the field of the future, is barely lived in at all. The future sustains the worst damage from a kick in the shin or an electrocution.
Destructive force limits the future unalterably.
Monthly Meeting, and a contributor to Best of Friends , Vol.