While Glederloos countered nonviolence as a tactic of cowardice (reference needed) it can be countered on three terms. First one needs valiance to counter a stronger force of weaponry and militant power. Secondly one who wields nonviolence cannot renounce violence if there is no possibility to resort to violence (Gandhi). Thirdly, the foolhardiness of irresponsible use of force against another power always comes to reap a mindless sacrifice on humanity with the dishonorable gamble to win quickly.
As a conclusion one cannot see into the emotional life of an activist, but only cowardice on the field of historical, political and economic life is the reluctance to use nonviolence consistently and the ignorance in developing ever new methods of nonviolent resistance when all but the violent methods have been exhausted as viable political recourses.
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