Many people called Gandhi an idiot, especially those who believed in "power comes from the barrel of a gun". Also, in the face of the arrogant and unreasonable colonial government with guns and guns, he politely stretched out his face to be beaten, and also delusionally thought that the beater would find out his conscience and abandon evil for good. He looked like a fool. What was Gandhi thinking?
In fact, Gandhi was deeply influenced by Hinduism and believed in benevolence and not killing. He famously said, "History has proved that love and truth will eventually defeat murderers and tyrants."
In the face of an arrogant bully, you can simply and rudely kill him, or you can use love and justice to influence him, just like Tang Xuanzang in "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", holding a book of 300 children's songs to wake up the monster's heart. Really good and beautiful.
Which method to choose depends on effectiveness on the one hand and values on the other. For Gandhi, if fighting for independence and freedom requires killing lives, then he would rather not have independence and freedom. This is a choice of faith.
Nonviolent non-cooperation is inefficient, and it took 30 years, starting in 1916, to drive out the colonists and achieve independence.
Non-violent non-cooperation is great. It awakens national integrity, stirs up national morale, and unites the people's hearts. With successive strikes and protests, the British colonists' minds and stamina are constantly worn away. The Indian people who have been kneeling for nearly a hundred years are lacking the most.
Non-violent non-cooperation is fortunate. After World War II, the British Empire has become a blood-drying giant, and it can no longer suppress the waves of independence movements in India, and finally return it to freedom.
Whether "non-violence and non-cooperation" is ineffective or not, the greatness of Gandhi is that people in the dark long for light, and Gandhi stood up and lit a torch!
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