I agree, as long as we agree on definitions for non-violence and violence. Conflict and violence are ongoing for so many. Violence is divestment in certain neighborhoods, policing, food apartheid, lack of safe water, lack of schools, lack of healthcare, increased job precarity, lack of infrastructure and public transit. There is a lot of violence but perhaps you don’t agree on the violence that is already here and resolutely ignored by those in power.

Yes - i have commented the episode as a text to the image. S3:E16 I am currently stitching one more together by him from the same episode that was pretty deep!

Could be, and while it sounds profound on the surface, it falls apart when you realize diplomacy is a daily occurance. I can’t even comprehend how many horrible things have been completely avoided due to tactful diplomacy by people we may never know the names of.

More a general loss of trust toward politics i guess.

Its a true line from the series though! S3 E16 where Spock has to deal with Gideon’s leaders who seem to want to waste time while they expose one of their female specimens to Kiek

“Nothing justifies genocide.” - Kira Nerys.

Not even mocking switched caps.