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* It didn't work in a [[Harry Turtledove]] story where Britain had been conquered and after some tough fighting the Germans had defeated the British Army in India. Non-violent protest proved not to work so well when attempted with an occupying power whose officers are willing to order the machine gunning of your protest march and whose superior officers and government regard that as a fine method to deal with civil disturbance.
* The second variation is played with in [[Discworld]]'s Small Gods. When the god Om gets his powers back, he and Brutha have a minor disagreement over some new laws. Om comments on how he can simply blast Brutha into a little smear on the floor, and Brutha cheerfully agrees that he could, couldn't he? And how Brutha would have absolutely no way of defending himself, whatsoever. Om grumbles that it's not right for someone to use defenselessness as a defense.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825014316/http://www.101zenstories.com/index.php?story=44 This Zen parable] - a thief entered the house of a priest who was meditating and threatens him, the priest tells him where the money is, asks him to leave enough for the priest to pay taxes and makes sure the thief thanks him when he leaves. A few days later the thief is arrested, but when the police ask the priest to testify against him, the priest tells them that he gave the thief the money and the thief thanked him. The thief still goes to prison, but when his sentence is over he comes back to learn Zen under the priest.
* Subverted heavily in [[Aesop's Fables|Aesop's fable]] "[[The Farmer and the Viper]]". The titular farmer shows compassion to the snake, but his [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|good deed]] [[Just for Pun|comes back to bite him]]. The moral? [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|"Kindness is thrown away upon the evil."]]
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