[glockmeister40]

It's easy to be a pacifist in the United States. They have the rest of us to protect their rights. I wonder how long the quakers would last in a typical middle east dictatorship? If you're not willing to fight for your country then go somewhere else or, at least, shut up.

[JoeFromSidney]

It's easy to be a pacifist in the United States. They have the rest of us to protect their rights. I wonder how long the quakers would last in a typical middle east dictatorship? If you're not willing to fight for your country then go somewhere else or, at least, shut up

As Robert Heinlein once observed, "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which someone accepts the benefits of the social group, refuses to pay his share of the cost, and claims a halo for his dishonesty."

[backhoe]

It's easy to be a pacifist in the United States. They have the rest of us to protect their rights

Precisely- it's always "rough men with guns in their hands" who stand in front of pacifists' "rights" to practice their beliefs... I wonder how many like her would be willing to move to Cuba and try staging an anti-government rally?

[nkycincinnatikid]

"easy to be a pacifist, they have the rest of the country to protect their rights". You have about summed it up, and every Quaker pacifist must feel very troubled with the knowledge that a real flesh and blood non-pacifist died painfully in the mud to allow them their freedom of "conscience".