Andrea thanks for the definition. My definition of pacifism is the unwillingness to fight back regardless of the circumstances. Even when the obvious motivation is Genocide (all people non-muslim).
If you get a chance watch an HBO series called Sleeper Cell. It's fiction but it will open your eys a bit. Even the movie Paradise Now pretty much explains it.
Pat, I am a pacifist and am wondering if you equate pacifism with fear or what you think pacifism is.
"If we will find it within us to overcome our fears of becoming again that which we were; if we will take upon ourselves the mission to fathom the depths of the Holocaust and find within it a hope and positive vision for the world in its entirety; if we will find it within us to go beyond what the Holocaust means to Germans and to Jews, we might perhaps find a path to a world that does not fear to come to terms with the darkness that lies within the human soul, yet finds the courage to let the light within it shine. "
