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You can probably get whatever you want by force assuming that you use enough force. However, can we say that might always makes right?
Of course not.
That force will help you get what you want in the short run but it will not maintain what you want in the long run. It usually is counterproductive and you lose at least as much as you gained.
You may believe in your goal and it may indeed be right, but the other side also has their thoughts and ideas and feelings about what is right and wrong. They believe that their goal is right and is justified.
If you get what you want by force, then you may indeed have achieved the right thing.
However, when the other side sees that you can get what you want by force then they will try to achieve their goals also by force. They believe that their goals are right but you certainly don't. However, you will have trained them that the way to achieve is by force. They will pull together enough force to be able to win their goal and their goal may well be the opposite of what you won. As a result you have won one battle now at the expense of losing an equally important battle in the future.
The result is anarchy. If you would have used a different technique to fight your battle you might not have won. If your arguments are powerful enough and if there is no doubt about your being right, then you would have had more of a chance of winning but no guarantee.
However, if you would have fought without rebelling, without resorting to force, then you would not have lowered the general method of achieving things and as a result looking back in hindsight later on you might have been able to say that in the big picture you came out ahead. Thus, by fighting, by using force you either win or lose the battle but you always lose the war. By using reason you might win or lose the battle but you win the war.
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