The US was founded on murder and theft yet you guys want to claim only communist kill people. What a joke.
Might makes right. Early America was explored, settled and made into a nation the same way every other great nation in history was.
Yes. Perhaps the most ancient and truest axiom of human civilization, from the family unit up across the centuries to our modern mega-civilizations. Might
has always made right. Those who lack or fail to use "might" go quickly and often silently into history's eternal night. Water under the bridge along with much spilled blood.
Might has always made right.
Oh. My. God.
While I am fairly certain any and all explanations to the italicized quoted bit will be lost on an "old" Lady who seems to embody such stunning naïveté, as they say, "the ants must continue to march." When a child does wrong a parent uses the
might of their authority to punish him. Should the parent choose not to use the might of their authority and ignore the child's offense, said child will use this weakness as authorization to transgress again, learning nothing in the process. When a police officer arrests a citizen, said police officer uses might to restrain, transport and process that citizen. If the same police officer stands idly by and allows that citizen to resist and/or flee arrest, society and justice has failed and the criminal escapes without punishment. Thus, might makes right. When the enemy is at the gate (metaphorically and/or literally) a nation's military mobilizes to use the might of its collective power to turn back and defeat the foe of its homeland. Might makes right.
Are you naïve enough to believe Stalin and his Bolshevik chums did
not use brutal might to seize power, relocate mass swaths of the Russian population and murder/imprison tens of millions of them? How about the American Revolution? No might was used to make right there either? Tell me, what is the "glue" that holds modern day civilization together? Why don't warlords rise to power in each of our States, gather armies and march on D.C.? Because all would be warlords
fear the might of our government. Same reason thousands of Americans don't make careers out of robbing banks or Walmart . . . fear of the might of our justice system. Might makes right. To the victors go the spoils. Fifty plus thousand years of humans using might to make right according whatever ideology rules the day. Accept it or don't. History could care less.