Many people do not realize that there is a distinction between the two. In a sense, it is important to differentiate the two from one another, yet at the same time it is pinning one form of the same method against the other which can lead to conflict within nonviolent protesters. This also greatly takes away from the goal of nonviolence because it focuses too much on how they differ from each other. There is a possibility that if the terms were to be forgotten nonviolence might crumble away into nothingness; clearly the distinction between the two is important. Both types of nonviolence have their pros and cons. Principled nonviolence encompasses a sense of community. This is evident through Gandhi’s Satyagraha where the people who practiced this, or satyagrahis, came together under a sense of unity that was created to “achieve correct insight into the real nature of an evil situation by observing a nonviolence of the mind.”
Many people do not realize that there is a distinction between the two. In a sense, it is important to differentiate the two from one another, yet at the same time it is pinning one form of the same method against the other which can lead to conflict within nonviolent protesters. This also greatly takes away from the goal of nonviolence because it focuses too much on how they differ from each other. There is a possibility that if the terms were to be forgotten nonviolence might crumble away into nothingness; clearly the distinction between the two is important. Both types of nonviolence have their pros and cons. Principled nonviolence encompasses a sense of community. This is evident through Gandhi’s Satyagraha where the people who practiced this, or satyagrahis, came together under a sense of unity that was created to “achieve correct insight into the real nature of an evil situation by observing a nonviolence of the mind.”