Construction of distant ends forces violence that revolt can avoid.

Evidence

But the antinomy reappears as soon as freedom again gives itself ends which are far off in the future; then, through the resistances of the given, divergent means offer themselves and certain ones come to be seen as contrary to their ends. It has often been observed that revolt alone is pure. Every construction implies the outrage of dictatorship, of violence. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 126

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• Violent revolt infects the oppressed with the oppressor’s own evil (similarity 0.81)
• Legitimate causes can require fighting against other valid causes (similarity 0.78)