“There are times when firmness, even physical compulsion, is necessary to stop dissenters … .
“In times of war, when internal rebellions threaten the lives and liberties of the people, when ample opportunity to repent has been afforded, the use of military force under righteous leadership to put down treacherous dissent has been justified … .
“The righteous only resort to slaying dissenters when the dissenters had undertaken to do something that immediately and seriously threatened the lives and liberties of the righteous innocent who would not agree with the dissenters” (Wardle, “Dissent,” 60–63).