if i am a pacifist and i believe humanity should practice compassion over the person who believes they should have the right to rule the world with aggression what would make my way more correct than the other??? Who decides right from wrong and who decides what is socially more acceptable if we all behave as hypocrites at one time or another???
2006-06-25 06:55:48 · 12 answers · asked by anonymous12 3 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
42 was the eventual answer.
We can't solve everything. Philosophical musings are the bst we have to offer.
Puzzle over it, grasshopper.
2006-06-25 06:59:10 · answer #1 · answered by Stuart 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The problem is not the pacifist; the problem is the unprovoked agressor.
We have laws in this country and laws in other countries to protect people from unprovoked agression. It is an agreement that we make as a society. If someone murders another human without being provoked, then the murderer is a danger to everyone in our society. The only reason this person would not continue to murder everyone and steal everything is the law (or, I suppose, the fear of having someone catch him breaking in and kill him).
It is not really a question of right and wrong; it is a question of what is the most safe for the most people. If Iraq attacks Kuwait WITHOUT provocation, then what is to stop them from attacking any other country? What example does that set for other countries in the world? Maybe North Korea wants to invade Japan?
It all has to do with self-preservation. No existing person or country wants to be destroyed. If everyone was a pacifist, then the system would not work. One person would eventually break the pattern and threaten the others. They would then have to either remain pacifists and die, or change from being pacifists. In either case, the pacifists would be no more.
2006-06-25 14:39:41 · answer #2 · answered by bwjordan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you know what there is no way ur way could me more right than anyone elses, what you may see right may be wrong to the next person, no one can decide right from wrong and the only thing that is socailly acceptable is what a certain person thinks is acceptable cause like i said once agin what you might think is acceptable might not be to the other person all we can do is accept everything that happens, and yes the world is full of hypocrites, and u know what this is my two cents there will never be a way we can have world peace or anything like that or close to that because no one will be a bigger person and just give up some of there beliefes and **** to stop all the fighting....
2006-06-25 14:05:03 · answer #3 · answered by whiskey1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pacifism is an admirable position.practicing pacifism usually requires civil disobedience and when used usually ends in someone hitting you with a nightstick or CS gas being dispersed so pacifism perpetrates violence and makes you one of the guilty parties.Right/ wrong - doesn't matter.
2006-06-25 14:11:35 · answer #4 · answered by Norman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we all decide if we are reasonable enough like Socrates. being hypocrite some times doesn't mean there is no answer.
2006-06-25 18:21:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the real world it doesn't matter if you are corrct or not. The person with power wins.
2006-06-25 14:00:32 · answer #6 · answered by AlphaFemale 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bush fights his war because he believes in compassion and stopping those who would do harm. so is all human and all war. good luck.
2006-06-25 13:57:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot control the actions of others. Only your own. Please continue to act in concert with your own true beliefs. If you do that you remain always right.
2006-06-25 14:02:16 · answer #8 · answered by seeker100 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Survival of the fittest, the strong survive.
2006-06-25 14:03:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
please look at numerlogy life path chart thats why you think like that.
http://www.astrology-numerology.com/num-lifepath.html
2006-06-25 14:20:54 · answer #10 · answered by INOTFRIEND 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋