If a pacifist could kill every warmonger in the world, would he do it, thus ending war?

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Idealy, I'd like answers from pacifists!

KghC said "are you one of them pacifists you referring to? I would definitely will. "

I'm glad I'm not the one that looks stupid here! ha!

Thanks for the compliment, David! Keep an eye on the forum for the answers! And check out my other questions too. I ask good ones!

Answer 1

Pacifist only hope to absorb evil as they encounter it and have the will power to not pass on chains of karma. In other words every interaction leaves moral garbage and free will gives us the choice of either getting revenge (or rubbing the bad karma on someone else) or letting the offense go and forgiving.

"If you take all this karmic garbage and make yourself feel better by passing it on to others that's normal. That's the way the world works. But if you manage to absorb it. That really advances everything, not just you. The whole world. If you look at the great moral figure of history-Christ, Lincoln, Gandhi, and others--you'll see that that;s what they were really involved in, the cleansing of the world by absorption of karmic garbage. They didn't pass it on. Their followers sometimes did, but they didn't."
-Robert M. Prisig

I only hope to enlighten warmongers by directly influencing them with actions. Read the story of the Indian Emperor Ashoka if you really are interested in an answer.

Answer 2

I consider myself a pacifist and my answer is no. Because if you did you would no longer be a pacifist. Plus those who supported the warmongers would come after you for revenge and war would continue. I think there will always be war but maybe having another iceage occur because of global warming wouldnt be a bad thing. Maybe then fighting would be localised and over important things like food and shelter not over stupid things like religion or economic systems. I say a good way to end war would be to stick all the world leaders like Chavez and Bush in a room together and let them kill each other.

Answer 3

The problem with your question is that you assume that killing all of the warmongers would end war. Even if all of the warmongers died, there are still plenty of people out there who want power or money or who want to avenge some wrong. After the first batch of antagonists were killed off another group would rise to fill the void. Since killing off all of the warmongers would not dtop war a pacifist would not go off and kill all those people because it would be against their nature and would not stop the fighting. The only real solution is to get people to see the value of human life and to learn humility and forgiveness. Changing the world will not happen unless man is willing to first change himself.

Answer 4

No...simply no. Pacifists don't kill...that's why they're pacifists. If that's what it would take, I'd rather not end war.

Answer 5

are you one of them pacifists you referring to? I would definitely will.

Answer 6

um pacifist dont believe in fighting so yah

Answer 7

If they did they would not be pacifists any more questions?

Answer 8

S/he wouldn't do it, because it would be an unending task.
For every warmonger killed, another would step up to take his/her place.

It would be better to arrange things so that they would have less to make war about.

Answer 9

No, he will know that would only lead to more killings and fights...

people is never satisfied or things are never good enough...

Answer 10

i dont really know the answer to that but just wanted to say what a good question... hope you get some sensible answers it deserves..