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To: Lorianne

He’s right. Non-violence is not the path to peace if your enemy is an aggressor with no qualms about being brutal. Faced with a brutal aggressor, the pacifist is in league with brutality.


8 posted on 07/11/2010 10:26:21 PM PDT by marron
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To: marron
He’s right. Non-violence is not the path to peace if your enemy is an aggressor with no qualms about being brutal. Faced with a brutal aggressor, the pacifist is in league with brutality.

Kind of works together with the principal of non-aggression that a lot of libertarian espouse.

9 posted on 07/11/2010 10:31:36 PM PDT by cryptical (The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.)
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To: marron

Yes, I say, let the enemy kill us and lets just get along.. I just can’t understand why anyone would question that...

What a bunch of idiotic people we have he on this site...

Long live the “current” Dalai Lama, of course, it is temporary, but who cares...


11 posted on 07/11/2010 10:44:27 PM PDT by Deagle
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