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In reply to the discussion: Greenwald and the Right Wing Media Have the Same Obama Smear--(Using Media Matters.) [View all]The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)My character has many flaws, but a principled commitment to pacifism is not among them. In a great many cases, the pacifist is simply the ally of the aggressor; the person who will not use violence when it is called for strengthens the hand of those who do violence for pleasure or profit, they do nothing whatever to assist those who have been the objects of violence and suffered it. That committed pacifists generally hold themselves out as possessors of greater moral purity than others only compounds the matter. 'My purity is too great and too valuable to be leached off in action which might prevent a greater harm to others', is frequently at the root of the thing, and is an attitude I cannot manage the slightest respect for.
"Violence will not solve everything, in fact it cannot solve many things, but those it can solve, nothing else can."