What is it they say. "I never started a fight, but I've ended a few."
If I am attacked, I will fight, and I will fight to win. I will kill, if I must. If I see an innocent person being attacked, I will defend that person, violently, if necessary. Sikhi teaches me that If all peaceful means fail, it is righteous to draw the sword."
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My born-again, spirit-filled Christian caregiver is aghast that I refuse to ask "God" for forgiveness for killing that attacker in 1984. Not only am I not sorry, I would have committed a great sin had I not fought to the best of my ability. That is one "Hindu" who will never again kill a Sikh. (I saw him kill my son.)
Of course, non-violence is preferable, but there is a time and place, imo, when violence is necessary and not responding in kind is a sort of condoning of evil. I am a Sikh. I am not a Christian or anything else. When it is righteous, I will draw the sword without guilt.
