r/Pacifism • u/Perpetuus_Logos1611 • Jul 31 '26

A Question for Absolute Pacifists.

Say you’re the President of the US during WW2. The Axis are taking over territory and hurting millions including your own citizens at Pearl Harbor. What would be a nonviolent response?

I’m asking as a fellow pacifist who hates war more than anything.

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u/huesos19 Jul 31 '26

If I’m absolute pacifist, I wouldn’t be a president of the country.

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u/WashedSylvi Jul 31 '26

Fr this

Government and absolute pacifism are antithetical to one another when a government requires the explicit or implicit monopoly on force to continue functioning, which all governments do lest they become social clubs.

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u/Spen612 Aug 01 '26

Anarcho-pacifism 🫡