Ethics and Values / Unit 8 Ethics 381 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Pacifism
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The idea
Pacifism holds that war — or all violence — is impermissible; the position's price is naming what may be done while the innocent are attacked.
In practice
The pacifist's strength is the ledger of every war's actual cost; the standing challenge is the neighbor under invasion asking what now.
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