The document discusses the complex issue of maintaining social order and whether the use of violence can ever be justified. It examines examples of abusive uses of social violence like police brutality, torture, and terrorism. The document also discusses nonviolent approaches to social change, citing the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr. as the best example. It concludes that any kind of violence does not lead to solutions and that nonviolent direct action is the only just means of responding to social injustices and preserving human rights and dignity.

3. Would a SACRIFICIAL RITUAL be just means of keeping social order within a village?

5. Also… Think about this…

7. How about KILLING THE ELEPHANT as just means to remind others that we’re the BOSS?!

8. Or…

9. Take, for instance, Myanmar/Burma : September 28, 2007

11. Is NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION the only just means ?

12. Let’s look at the issue…

18. Here are common contemporary examples of the ABUSIVE use of social violence .

21. La Migra Brutality

22. Philadephia

25. Acteal Massacre in Chiapas

26. 9/11

27. War on Terrorism

31. Guantanamo Bay

32. Saddam’s Regime

34. Do these look like JUSTIFIED forms of violence to maintain social order?????

35. What Results from Direct Social Violence ?

36. Fear

37. The guilty pleading innocent

38. Encourages opposing violent forces

39. Madness becomes the new medium

40. Creates additional problems

41. Absolute oppression of human entity

42. What are the CAUSES of violence controlling social order?

44. Here are the outcomes of inappropriate reactions to social pressure and social injustices.

52. “ I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.” - George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant”

61. There must be a better way to resolve conflict and maintain order…

63. Zapatista Movement

66. Martin Luther King Jr. said that “ANY act of violence against a particular person or group that is based on racial discrimination, economic status, sexual orientation, or religion is a violation of human rights .”

68. Birmingham 1963

71. Martin Luther King Jr. was an advocate for the use of NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION in response to segregation and racial discrimination.