"My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving loved ones unprotected. Between violence and cowardly flight, I can only prefer violence to cowardice."
- Gandhi. Young India, 1924
As a pacifist along Gandhian lines, Fagburn is opposed to all acts of violence, unless they're committed in self-defence.
But...
It was hard not to feel strangely moved by this story in the Telegraph; "A father knocked out a schoolgirl with a baseball bat after she taunted his teenage son for being gay..."
"[Dean] Canham lost control after receiving a phone call from his 18-year-old son Michael begging for help after a clash with gang of youths in Felixstowe, Suffolk."
He says he saw the "red mist" descending because this had happened before.
I think he had a pretty good claim it was an act of self-defence.
The judge gave him three years.
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