Simple Plan

From one of my posts in forum "Rizal: A Universal Genius"

Hi. Had Rizal acceeded to that time’s calling for him to lead the revolution (at least the physical-battle, survival-of-the-fittest type as might have been envisioned by bonifacio), could it have meritted more to our history? Would they have been able to accomplish more If they were able to kill more key Spaniard officials in the Philippine society at that time under Rizal’s leadership? Would it have stopped ‘imperialist-Spain’ and the other foreign forces that came after it?

Was Rizal actually being less effective as a societal change agent when he chose to not take up arms and kill people? If one kills to triumph over another who represents something that is not good, is it more effective to kill the person, or the idea/philosophy that that particular enemy represents?

Was he not right in deeming that the best way to defeat the Spaniards were to organize the Filipinos around the right kind of ideas; and not just agitating the people to take up arms?

Even if their movement was able to kill more enemies, and say, was able to kick the spaniards out of Philippine soil after a possible long-running war, longer than it actually lasted, could the survivor-Filipinos have the right kind of ideas to lead a war-torn country that just spent 300 years in the convent before our beloved country’s 30-year experience in Hollywood?