A "pacifist" is just a coward or slacker that's not even honest enough
to admit that he (or she) is a coward or slacker.

Now you've gone too far the other way....Gandhi was certainly not a coward
nor was he a slacker...and I don't believe that people brought up as Friends
are either coward's or slacker's. It is Utopian to think that this world
could all adhere to pacifism as a lifestyle...and a common belief that man
is born good, rather than is born under the stain of sin, would have to be
engendered. (Pelagian rather than the Augustinian viewpoint held by not
only Christians, but Jews and Islam) And pacifism only works in cases where
you are facing a somewhat reasonable adversary. Imagine pacifism in the
face of Hitler. He would have relished it and it would have confirmed his
belief in weakness of his targets. Think of pacifism in the face of Idi
Amin. It would have gotten you a dinner invitation...as dinner...

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