[extropy-chat] Gandhi's antipode

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'Pure' pacificists don't exist, save for the Jains,
who may be extinct. BTW, I'm a conscientious objector,
not a real pacifist, I have already fought in
self-defense, the time in the car with the choker. A
true pacifist would sacrifice his or her life rather
than fight back against deadly force, correct?



> Proud pacifists always seem to conclude that
> Gandhism is pure pacifism,
> when it is not. Gandhism is a specific strategy of
> non-violent
> resistance that ONLY functions when the oppressor
> state has a free
> press and a populace that both controls who sits in
> government and
> considers themselves moral and compassionate people.
> Gandhism does not
> work with amoral regiemes, with states lacking in
> public virtue, open
> channels of communication, or a means by which the
> public can hold the
> state responsible.
> 
> That many pacifists continue to cling to such a
> misimpression so
> desperately is definitely a sign of mental defect of
> some sort.
> 
> =====
> Mike Lorrey
> Chairman, Free Town Land Development
> "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of
> human freedom.
> It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of
> slaves."
>                                          -William
> Pitt (1759-1806) 
> Blog:
> http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism
> 
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