Is it okay to punch a Nazi?

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And why is your answer “Yes?”

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

Is it okay to punch an antifa member?
And why is it wrong to embrace "an eye for an eye"?

Aren't you encouraging violence?

If we don’t punch them, are we complicit in their actions?

Woody Allen would say "yes". He is ...rather persuasive... for a few seconds...then the topic changes to...orgasms.

I don't know how many Nazis are still alive today. Aside from that I guess it depends on whether or not the "Nazi" is attacking and you're punching in self defense? Then I'd say it's ok. If the "Nazi" is obeying the law and acting peacefully then punching them is just thuggery poorly masquerading in self-righteousness.

If you start seeing them reemerging in large enough numbers it's probably worth addressing the underlying causes that would make it a 'thing'. One of the ongoing theories that's shown persuasive cause and effect is that fascism (of which naziism is a very unusual and particular sort) is a bit like a cultural immune response that starts happening when certain kinds of things are already going horribly wrong economically and socially. Patch the proximate causes if possible and the fascism generator function grinds either to a halt or to such a crawl that it's creating something like a few dozen or a few hundred worldwide every year.

Punching them seems like an abdication of examining what they're a sign of, although obviously if they're physically confronting you or being physically aggressive toward someone where you're at and you decide to break it up it's a different story.

I somehow don't think the US soldiers at Normandy were putting on black masks in the u-boats to then go vandalize French cities. I could round up a bunch of friends, call us 'anti-breast-cancer', put pink arm bands on, go smash and loot things (places that aren't smoke shops or creating carcinogenic products), and then when me and my friends get arrested it would be proof that the police are in favor of breast cancer.

IMHO they've got a meth-head problem to deal with before they can be taken very seriously by their name.