ChipTuner on Nostr: this is a complex and nuanced topic I don't have time for, but while I don't think it ...

this is a complex and nuanced topic I don't have time for, but while I don't think it justifies political violence in any way, to suggest that it doesn't showcase the express use of extreme violence to protect your people from injustice, more specifically governments who do not uphold Natural rights.

The declaration leaves much to subjective interpretation, but documents from other founding fathers I think you can argue the general consensus supports the idea that violence is the last resort and ultimately necessary - throughout history AND likely to repeat.

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States

And the big one from Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms. Drafted after the pushback of the Intolerable acts in the middle of 1775 before King George declared the US in rebellion, before the deceleration was certified by congress.

> Our Cause is just: our Union is perfect: our internal resources great, and if necessary, foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable. We gratefully acknowledge, as signal Instances of the Divine Favour towards us, that his Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe Controversy, until we were grown up to our present Strength, had been previously exercised in warlike Operation, and possessed of the Means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating Reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the World, declare, that, exerting the utmost Energy of those Powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the Arms we have been compelled by our Enemies to assume, we will, in Defiance of every Hazard, with unabating Firmness and Perseverence, employ for the Preservation of our Liberties, being with one Mind resolved to die Freemen rather than to live Slaves.