Originally Posted by
Lee Chiang Po
Contrary to what is said, violence has it's place in society. This thing about none violence and no one deserves being violently attacked is mostly ethical or moral standards set by certain members of society, but in fact, there is nothing that is right or wrong, and because someone finds it morally unexceptable does not actually make it wrong or right. There are those that deserve being violently assaulted.
About 30 years ago I ran a small book out of my print shop. I did my own rounds and collecting. Occasionally I would have someone try to stiff me. Now, if I had allowed them to get by with it, my business would have gone down the tube. So, I would administer a measure of violence in the form of a thrashing and possibly a broken small bone, the first time. One day a friend and former employer called me and asked me to collect a loan for him that was well past due. I would have gotten a percentage of the amount collected of course. A certain Dallas based TV Evangelist that I am certain everyone would know if I gave his name, had borrowed a large amount of cash to pay off bets he had lost. He ran a book too, and was bad at making odds, and he got in the red and needed bucks to get out. So he borrowed it. He missed 3 pay back dates and so I went to talk to him about it. He told me that he didn't have the money and that he was going to put it into the hands of the lord. If it got paid, good. If not, then it was all in the hands of the lord. I said ok, that is just fine, and litterally stomped him to the inch of his life.
Next morning I went to see my employer to explain to him that I was unable to collect his money, but before I could deliver the bad news, he asked me what I had said to him because a fellow had come in and paid it all up in full. He then handed me my percentage. I explained to him that I had been rather stern with him and my employer said, it is true that the lord works in mysterious ways. Nothing else was said.
So you see, violence does have a place in our society. It gives you leverage when nothing else is going to work. There are people that simply do not understand anything else.