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1. It also requires constant vigilance and action

Reply to redqueen (Original post)

Thu May 3, 2012, 11:22 AM

May 2012

Our society seems to get confused because "passive" and "pacifist" sound so similar, and the assumption is that pacifism is a do-nothing sort of philosophy. And that just isn't the case.

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