Does that work?

Can a parent teach a child to not hit another child by spanking?Can the death penalty teach that killing is wrong?Can you separate the means from the ends?

“There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another.” Emma Goldman

Is there a route to justice without vengeance?Does vengeance ever lead to a lasting peace?Can you bomb your way into peace?Is revolution a way to get to democracy?

The means are the seeds that bud into flowers and come to fruition.The fruit will always be the nature of the seed planted.19th century pacifist quoted in Seeds of Peace, a catalog of quotations

When peace and justice are where you want to end up, can you get there through domination based on distrust?If we want peace, where do we start?Can we create a Ministry of Peace in the USA that would communicate with the Armed Forces?