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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: Violence is a perfectly acceptable method of protest when peace has been repeatably proven to not be effective.

I have seen so much condemnation for violence and looting from the media and politicians, but I just see this as the next logical step. If you hold one protest after another about the same thing and the people in power continue to do nothing to acknowledge let alone alleviate your concerns then it only makes sense that if they are apathetic to peaceful protests then you have to move on to civil disobedience to get them to care. If that doesn't work then it escalates to violent protests and eventually actual war/ revolution. If anything the fact that a protest escalates to violence is indicative of a systematic problem in governance where the governed feel no hope of a peaceful resolution to their concerns. While I'm not saying anyone who resorts to violence is in the right I am saying that if a peaceful protest escalates to violence then the people who were protesting should not be shamed and  their cause considered wrong because of the violence. Instead we should look to the leaders who caused the escalation because violence is only a natural response to a feeling of being powerless to change an injustice in the world.
gpt
I get that you're talking about police brutality and whatnot, but do you think this argument still holds water when you apply it to *other* issues?

Climate change - peaceful methods haven't worked and we're still burning fossil fuels. Let's burn down a Walmart to expedite the process. 

The school system needs more funding and peaceful methods haven't achieved that - let's throw bricks through windows instead.

And so on and so forth.