To be a peaceful person and live a peaceful life is a virtue, and to allow violence to you or others by refusing to fight back is violence to humanity. Pacifism allows violence, and by allowing it also endorses it. Pacifists, true pacifists, accept violence out of fear and claim virtue and their excuse. The only thing worse than the violence of evil men is the inaction of good men.
I advocate that kindness and integrity, types of pacifism, as the best self-defense. After all, if I show you good character and we become friends then maybe I won't have to defend myself against you. Sometimes this is not possible, despite best efforts, and the recognizable side of martial arts must surface to annihilate an opponent totally. Water can go around something or it can knock it over. It will always opt for the former first and batter down mountains if it must. This is the way of things. This is nature. We are in harmony with nature when we behave like this. To allow someone to do violence to yourself for or your family is wrong.
Pacifism, like violence, is a powerful tool and either can work. But it is unbalanced to live a life of violence without any peace or beauty as it is to leave a leisurely life of a coward who won't fight the evils of this world. Live peacefully and walk tall.
The pursuit of spiritual though the physical and everything about nothing.
About Me
- ninjattorney
- After going to law school far, far from home, I came back and litigate in a public intersest job. I love the law about as much as I have opinions about it (what lawyer doesn't?), but my real passion is fitness and self-development.
2 comments:
We should expedite the process and kill all pacifists now.
'Least they won't put up a fight. Good to have you round and keepin' it real.
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