Violent 'solutions'

I just finished reading through all of the comment currently posted at Eschaton regarding the "baths for baptisms" chaplain, and I noticed something I found very disturbing. 

Many of the comments suggested actions along the line of saying the chaplain should be sent home as soon as possible 'in a shipping container' or that he should be shot and other, similar violent actions.

In the last week, we've seen a number of posts both here and at other blogs decrying the use of violent images and language by the pro-war crowd and aimed at the anti-war advocates. A prime example is the outrage over Richard Condon's comment that anti-war protestors deserve a bullet to the head.

While I am completely outraged over this chaplains actions and insensitivity to his fellow soldiers and their individual spiritual needs, it is just as wrong for any of us to suggest he should be beaten, shot or otherwise sujected to violence for what he is doing as we say it is for the pro-war forces to engage in offering violent "solutions" to their problems with us.  We can't expect them to play by rules we aren't willing to follow ourselves - no matter how good saying "he should be shot" feels when we're filled with anger at what he's doing.