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> Counter argument; pacifism accepts you don't control other countries. World still catching on. Reality's still catching on … war is, as Clausewitz noted, dip
by zeveb 11y ago
> Counter argument; pacifism accepts you don't control other countries. World still catching on.
Reality's still catching on … war is, as Clausewitz noted, diplomacy carried on by other means: just as diplomacy is a way to achieve a condition in which one's goals are met, so too is war (albeit a spectacularly unpleasant and evil way). Sometimes the good of one's goals outweighs the evil of war; sometimes it doesn't.
One certainly can control, or at the very least shape, what others do. If not, why do we have laws? Why do we have RFCs? Why do we have common languages?
- Retric 11y agoYou're confusing a possible future with the present. Wars of aggression can and often are lost. No country not even the US at the peak of it's power has been capable of beating every other country out there while surviving.