>>Well, you can thank Hitler and the Japanese for that...
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>Right. But Hitler (and Hirohito) obviously thought that violence was going to solve their problem.
>But it didn't - they got wupped.
>So how can one conclude that violence solves problems?... Stronger violence 'solved' the Hilter/Hirohito "problems" and not violence per-se.
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>As I said in another reply, if violence solved problems then WWI truly should have 'solved' starting WWII. Since it didn't, the conclusion that violence solves problems is erroneous.

Violence can only help stopping the violence someone else started. Conversely, any attempt to solve any other problem with violence is likely to provoke a similar (or worse) reaction.