Its better to have a peaceful protest. You can't fight fire with fire. The civil rights movement is a great example of this. If there weren't peaceful protest I doubt that segregation would have ended when it did.

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No, I'm all for counter protests. I'm fine with that. Sometimes violence will occur, but that is the nature of heated disputes. I don't celebrate that, but I understand that sometimes it is inevitable. 

The point is again not to change views. It is to demonstrate that there is a larger majority that wants nothing to do with such views and opposes said views. 

Progress always happens. It happens every day. It's partly why "conversative" movement is an oxymoron in itself, the nature of our reality is the world changes every day incrementally and is never the same again. Humanity will obviously evolve, eventually probably into something we today won't even recoginize. But such change is also slow, for a species like us that wants instant results all the time, sometimes the dull snail's pace of change can be frustrating, but that is what it is. 

There is never unbroken peace as a result of conflict because as i said, conflict breds further conflict or plants the seeds for future conflict.

As for hitler, do you think he was born hating jews, or would you not agree that these seeds were planted throughout his early life during his years of service in world war 1 and further fostered after joining DAP in 1919?

Did chit-chat make him go away after those seeds were planted? no.

But did war?, did conflict?, they may well have lead to his death, but his ideology is alive and well today, and is in a large part the driving force behind todays events which spawned this thread.

So clearly no, conflict did not settle things, not at all.

So you're saying that unless Trump THANKS Putin for expelling the US diplomats, he would be pushing for war?

Because I'm saying that's not the case.
And that doesn't makse sense to you how exactly?

"The point is again not to change views"

so its simply about permanently dividing the population... doesn't sound like much of a solution to me but whatever

"It's partly why "conversative" movement is an oxymoron in itself"

despite progress there are certain values that have to be retained for a society to function so no that's wrong

"Humanity will obviously evolve, eventually probably into something we today won't even recoginize."

human society for observable history has been cyclical and not a linear pogression as you appear to believe

civilisation rises to great heights then people lose track of what the foundation of their society is and everything falls to ashes and eventually civilisation is born again from the ashes

we saw it with mesopothamia, egypt, rome, etc etc etc, but maybe this time we may be able to save our civilisation, but i'm doubtful about that honestly

The point is, if conflict wasnt used as a means to begin with, WW2 wouldn't have happened to begin with.

And why do you, and the other guy, always, automatically default to the only other option being "do nothing"? WHY?

In every instance there are multiple paths to take, even in your bully situation, there aren't two options, "stand up to the bully" or "do nothing", stating that protestors are approaching things the wrong way doesn't automatically make the only other option to be "sit back and do nothing".

I'd rather have Neo-Nazis being a sad little clique of little shit heads who have gatherings of 1000-2000 people than have the Nazis win WW2. 

There is a time to stand up. If you are bullied at school, you think the bully is going to stop if you decide to just sit there and do nothing? Operate with that mentality in life and see where it gets you. If you believe it will take you some place good, great.