The war against self defense began in the schools
May 1, 2012 12:38 pm - Author: Eric
Whether it’s in the New York Times, CNN or countless other places, the George Zimmerman case is becoming a well organized campaign against “Stand your ground” laws, which is a thinly veiled war against self defense itself.
As I told M. Simon (who has been sending me links) in an email, I should probably be screaming “I TOLD YOU SO,” because I have been kvetching about this ever since the Zimmerman case became high profile.
What worries me the most about the case does not involve the actual merits of who did what, who started it, and whether or not Zimmerman legally defended himself against Trayvon Martin so much as the importance of these questions being asked.
Many people don’t think they should be asked, and that is what I see as a bigger problem. I worry that there is an entire generation of children who have been raised in a culture of ZERO TOLERANCE for self defense, and now that they are of age, it is considered time to tap into their naive mindset in order to bring about a better world in which (so it is claimed) all violence will be finally eliminated.
I often say that I am glad not to be a parent today, and one of the reasons is that I cannot count the number of times I have been told by angry parents that children are no longer allowed to defend themselves. The perverse modern rule (imposed by progressive educrats for decades now) is that the child who dares to defend himself against a bully is just as bad as the bully. Because violence is bad. That I consider this anathema makes me little more than a relic of our violent past.
When I was a kid, it mattered who started it. Who was the aggressor? And in cases where it was unclear and the two boys just wouldn’t stop fighting, they would actually have them put boxing gloves on and settle it at the gym.
No more. Now the question of “Who started it” has been made deliberately, malevolently irrelevant. I say malevolently, because I cannot think of a better way to empower bullies than assigning equating them an equal status with their victims, especially those who fight back. And I can think of few things more malevolent than punishing a child for standing up to a bully. That this has become standard education policy makes me glad I don’t have children. I honestly don’t know what I would do if I had kids and couldn’t afford a private school which refuses to indoctrinate children with the noxious idea that it is evil to fight back against evil.
Who started it matters. Damn it, it matters a lot. Who attacked whom is such a basic principle that it goes to the heart of what we call civilization. The civilized world was outraged when Hitler invaded Poland and France. History is replete with example after example. Unless the invaded countries were aggressors in the first place, invaders are usually seen as the bad guys.
Who started it? and Who was the aggressor? — these questions lie at the essence of self defense. The people who don’t want “who started it” to matter see the Zimmerman case as a perfect foot in the door. To them it really does not matter who started it, nor should it matter.
And they want the law changed to reflect the new reality which is at war with reality.
If Zimmerman is found to have been attacked and was justified in defending himself, that is the entire problem.
We are living in a new era and we need new laws.
It’s something any school child ought to able to understand.
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