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As you might recall, I posted awhile back on a new idea making bumpers and T-shirts across America. It was the idea of "Peace the Old Fashioned Way", which shows a bomber, B-52 or some other fighter plane silhouetting a peace sign over a stylized American flag.

I pointed out that the incoherence of peace through domination. Peace can only be the product of voluntary human interaction. It's not that using violence is never appropriate (i.e. pacifism is the answer): defending and protecting property, which includes protecting our own existence, requires us to act -- and act violently at times.

But domination does not create peace. If it did, then any number of oppressed and subdued individuals of past and present times were actually living in peace -- was this good?

I wanted to create a graphical answer (And question) to these "Peace the Old Fashioned Way" stickers and T-shirts. I wanted the graphic to point out the bizarre juxtaposition of domination, which ultimately, is the threat of deathly violence, with the concept of peace. The following graphic was born:

It's also worth noting that the concepts of death and peace have met before -- on tombstones in the caption R.I.P. or "Rest in Peace". Is this really the kind of peace we want?

And finally,I'm posting this in the autoDogmtic store since I've thrown this graphic on a number of t-shirts in different colors and a couple variations on the design as well as a button. If you find the graphic provoking and wish to sport a contrarian view on the merits (or rather, the lack thereof) of "Peace the Old Fashioned Way" by posing a question to the world, you can get these items at autodogmatic.spreadshirt.com

All feedback is welcome. If you would like the shirt in a different color, let me know.