[extropy-chat] Gandhi's antipode

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This is all debatable. 

> Real pacifists are a dime a dozen. A pacifist may
> convince himself that
> the instinctual response of 'fight or flight' was a
> concious choice on
> their part, but it still does not make them not a
> pacifist.
> Non-pacifism is demonstrated when the individual is
> under no legal
> compulsion or situational constraint against actions
> other than active
> defense, and consciously chooses to face fear with
> determination in
> defense of themselves, others, their property, or
> the state.
> 
> I do not begrudge a person's choice at pacifism. The
> public virtue that
> a free state depends upon can only exist if we are
> all free to choose
> to act virtuously or not, just as sin can only exist
> if we all have the
> free will to choose to commit good or evil.
> Compelled morality is an
> oxymoron of totalitarianism, but he who freely
> chooses against virtue
> should not try to pretend that they are instead
> taking the virtuous
> choice, or that what they might do, or may have done
> in the past, in a
> situation where they had no choice, therefore makes
> them virtuous in
> spite of their truly free choices.
> 
> =====
> 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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