How does Mahatma Gandhi play out in present Uganda where things are in flux and we don't know what the future holds? Yet the dictator wants certainty by assuring his sole candidacy, afraid of the vagaries of the natural law of uncertainty.
Gandhi synthesized the teachings of Buddha, Jesus, Thoreau and Tolstoy. He argued that there are three responses to evil:
1. The lowest and least recommended response is to submit to evil, to surrender and do its bidding in abject docility.
2. The second response is to fight evil with evil, to oppose it violently.
3. The best response to evil is non-violent resistance, to fight against evil without evil tactics.
Gandhi was questioned about the third option: Would the NAZIs or the Boers of his native country of South Africa have cared and mowed down the population en masse? His response was that the perpetrators would then have realized that they were committing atrocities sooner than what ensued with WWII and the loss of lives with Apartheid. --Adopted from Robert Thurman on Mahatma Gandhi.
Freedom, Equality, Fairness, Progress and Happiness are some of the most important existential states ever recognized by humankind. The Liberal Manifesto seeks, supports and encourages all efforts of wo/mankind to those ends. It will oppose and fight against forces that work against these pentathlon principles.
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