re after years can we say that christian morality is in article lefty lefty apple com lefty apple com lefty writes these particular tibetans are advocating increased violence against the chinese occupiers are they wrong wrong about what i think they are correct in thinking that a well placed bomb or six would get headlines but i think they are wrong if they think that you can set off bombs and still be a buddhist maybe what we are seeing here is that chinese cultural genocide against the tibetans has worked well enough that some tibetans are now no longer buddhist and are instead willing to behave like the chinese occupiers every action is its own reward clearly the occupation of tibet has been largely ignored on the other hand people who are aware of the occupation are mostly full of admiration for the peaceful way that tibetans have put up with it and what does it cost us to admire them zip are tibetans currently people of peace do they serve themselves well or badly by being so yes they are and whether this serves them well or not depends on whether they want buddhist principles or political independence and without political independence can they preserve their cultural and religious traditions would an increased level of violence make them terrorists the chinese would certainly refer to them as terrorists just as the hitler regime used to refer to european resistance movements as terrorists assuming that the group advocating this course is correct and greater attention is focussed on the occupation of tibet by the chinese are the tibetans better off as people of peace or as terrorists better off in what way as proponents of pacifism or as proponents of political autonomy and better off in what time scale the soviet empire practised cultural genocide against something like a hundred small minorities some of which resisted violently and some of which did not but in the end it was the soviet empire that collapsed and at least some of the minorities survived now some of the minorities are fighting one another is that because they have to or because violent resistance to an oppressive empire legitimized violence jon
