Counter Strike

It is one of the most popular games. Two teams are there, Terrorist and Counter Terrorist, fighting till death. It is an enthralling and a highly addicted game. Often I think why I used to love that game so much? And sometime this vague idea use to come to my mind was Gandhiji alive would he be playing this game or he would have opposed it, on the grounds of increasing violent thinking among teenager or youth. Gandhiji was staunch supporter of non-violence. People often characterize non-violence with cowardice or mock people who actually practice non-violence. But do they really understand what exactly non-violence is? Even I was not sure of exact meaning of the term, but in last couple of years I am beginning to understand what exactly Gandhiji meant by non-violence. It is very often in life when things are not in the manner they should be. They are quite dis-structured. Very rightly said 'an unjust law is not law at all'. There are situations when self-negations often entangle itself with other-negation. This situation is quite grim, and might torch the violence. But even to this situation if non-violence, instead of repudiating or for the interest negations creating Hiroshima, is a better way to structure out things. Philosophy of non-violence is not doing anything even something bad or unjust is done to you. It is recognizing the wrong in the society, taking a stand for it, fighting for the right and not killing each other. Killing, often despise, is one of the worst sin a human can commit. I watched Great Debaters, an excellent movie, recently and was really carried away by the final debate especially last couple of lines. Black movement in US is well known to everyone. They were in much-much worse conditions, denied basic educations, molested and killed often. There conditions were more pitiful than Indians as treated by Britishers. The debater who was black and saw a rogue mob killed a black man and hung him the field of corn because he supposedly stole some corn. So when oppositions says that Non-Violence is a mask wore by Civil Disobedience, in order to hide the anarchy. Then this little black man replies My opponent says nothing that erodes the rule of law can be moral. But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow South, not when Negroes are denied housing, turned away from schools, hospitals, and not when we are lynched. St. Augustine said, an unjust law is no law at all which means I have a right, even a duty, to resist. with violence or civil disobedience. You should pray I choose the latter. I just want you to think why we exactly need something like this in today’s age.