Growing up in the phoenix settlement the first ashram founded. Here ela gandhi describes her motivation for supporting the statement. At the 2014 vienna conference on the humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons from december 8 9 representatives of faith communities from around the world issued a statement condemning the use of nuclear weapons.
Ela gandhi photo by niall mcnulty cc by nc 2 0. It should be noted that in spite of building a lot of nuclear weapons gandhi is the leader least likely to declare wars and is himself not very willing to engage in wars. Given the nature of nuclear weapons in real life however his preference for nuclear weapons may be a mad strategy to deter from actual battling.
It means slow torture and when slowness becomes ineffective we shall immediately revert to killing and to the atom bomb which is the last word in violence today. Gandhi non violence nonviolence in the sense of more non killing does not appear to me therefore to be any improvement on the technique of violence. We would like to show you a description here but the site won t allow us.
He loves stockpiling nuclear weapons. One of humanity s great leaders who was committed to the power of nonviolent protest and its ability to cause change in society. Yes that gandhi.
It s just that gandhi in the role of aggressor surprised players more than other leaders i am sure this legend was born. This in fact led to the fact that gandhi periodically became aggressive each of the leaders began to behave rather disgustingly as soon as he had nuclear weapons in his hands. It means slow torture and when slowness becomes ineffective we shall immediately revert to killing and to the atom bomb which is the last word in violence today.
Nonviolence in the sense of more non killing does not appear to me therefore to be any improvement on the technique of violence.
