If we're talking about ethics in terms of "living a good life", then the question is who even has the options to do so? I get the sense that "good life" ethics tends to ignore how poverty and other oppressive systems limit choices.
Thus questions like "Is nonviolence part of living a good life?" cannot be honestly answered until we answer other questions like: "Who is pressured to act violently?", "Can everyone be nonviolent?", and "What is the cost/consequences of nonviolent living on the poor and other oppressed communities, particularly if not everyone is acting nonviolently?"
However, there is hope. I think that the native studies term "survivance" points to the fact that there are certain ethics that can always be lived out in ways that support both physical and spiritual life.
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