According to Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. what is the difference between nonviolence and cowardice? Why is it that nonviolence is the best strategy for conflict? What is wrong with violence? What is wrong with giving up and passively accepting injustice? How does nonviolence work on the minds of the oppressors? Why do other thinkers like Malcolm X or Aquinas argue that nonviolence will not always work? When do they think that self-defense is sometimes justified? What do you think: can nonviolence really be applied to every situation, or is violence sometimes necessary? [Be clear here – if you think that war and self-defense are sometimes necessary, then you don’t agree with both sides: you are siding with Aquinas.]