A pacifist friend gave me Island by Aldous Huxley, with a similar scenario, a pacifist island is overrun by a martial island. The pacifist island is drawn as a

A pacifist friend gave me Island by Aldous Huxley, with a similar scenario, a pacifist island is overrun by a martial island. The pacifist island is drawn as a wonderful, cooperative society, while the warlike island is a tyranny. My friend considered the pacifist island a good model for the real world, but that just made me wonder if she really read it to the brutal end.