I Hereby Resign in Protest Effective Immediately

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55. Slight quibble

I have always believed that if every foot soldier threw down his rifle war would end

Slight quibble, every foot soldier on both sides threw down their rifle. This cannot be unilateral.

An historical reference is the famous "Christmas Peace" from WW I. Everyone did lay down their rifle. None the less, ultimately they went back to war, mostly when their own officers threatened them.

If we want to try "unilateral peace" we can go down that road. MLK was a large advocate of it. But make no mistake, it will involve people dying, and potentially in large numbers.

I'm a fairly big advocate of "violence avoidance". Wars don't really accomplish much. But it is also a fairly historical reality that people who are not ready to defend themselves from hostile actions are doomed to elimination. What we are doing now is stupid, I'm not sure that this means that the complete opposite is the right answer either. That's resting an entire philosophy on basically a false dichotomy.