CHAT: pacifism
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 19, 2003, 8:09 |
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>J Y S Czhang scripsit:
> > I don't think Goodman, Le Guin, Chomsky & LaoTzu * would like being
> > called "militant" or associated with any form of "militancy." They
> > are most vocal about being "pacifist."
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> Google shows the phrase "militant pacifism" gets about 250 hits, mostly
> associated with Albert Einstein, who clearly belongs on the list.
I dunno about that. Einstein was clearly a pacifist, but he was
nowhere near as militant as Chomsky. Einstein genuinely thought
becoming involved in WWII was a less bad option than allowing Hitler
to kill tens of millions of Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Slavs and other
Europeans who happened to be in the way. Chomsky, by comparison,
to my knowledge has never not condemned any war, whatever the motives.
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