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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: SirWalterRalegh who wrote (177768)12/12/2005 4:37:02 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
No. <Is it a statement of pacifism when you say "we have a broader view of humanity"?>

It's not pacifist to suggest that mentally disturbed people, or deaf people, who fail to stop when called out to don't need to be shot to resolve the situation.

It's not pacifist to understand that humans aren't all robotic identical clones of mindless compliance to dumb murderous authoritarians.

<How do we identify who are included in "we"?>

In free societies, "we" are those who don't get violent when somebody is a little out of the norm. < In free societies, the answer to stepping out of a very narrow circumscribed robot-like routine isn't death. We have a broader view of humanity. >

"We" don't think free people should stay in a very narrow circumscribed robot-like routine or suffer summary execution. We have a broader view of humanity than that.

You can tell if you are in "we" or not by thinking what your attitude is to people who don't comply with your particular model of perfection. For example "we" don't think deaf people should be shot for failing to respond to a call of "Stop, Police!!" when somebody who is secretly a policeman is wearing a Hawaiian shirt and pretending to be a civilian but is waving a gun around like a crazy.

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