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Ben believes that to answer violence with violence only begets more violence, while Chon believes that to answer violence with nonviolence only begets more violence, his evidence being the entire history of humanity.
Together, Ben and Chon make up a collective pacifist. Ben is the paci Chon is the fist.
It’s an article of faith with Ben that problems generate solutions, which generate more problems, which generate more solutions, and he labels this endless cycle “progress.”
Liberals, Chon will opine when he’s on a rant—and he’s on one now— —are people who love their enemies more than their friends, prefer anyone else’s culture to their own, are guilty of success but unashamed of failure, despise profit and punish achievement.
Narcotics are illegal, so we use them to execute people. For crimes.
He knows that a soul isn’t for rent, only for sale.
Fair being fair. Friendship being friendship. And business being business. (Not to mention alliteration being alliteration.)
