Pesda wrote:The Nihilistic view wrote:Pacifism ignores the realities of the world since it ignores or rather does not take into account why wars are fought, It's not black and white. Some wars are bad some wars are necessary as not fighting them would have worse consequences. Whilst being anti self determination is bad at least it deals with reality somewhat better.
I think all wars are bad.
War is bad but it does not change that it can be necessary. WW2, Korea, Desert Storm, Falklands, Kosovo, Bombing ISIS, Sierra Leone and many others. The consequences of doing nothing in these situations are far worse in different ways depending on the war than fighting the war or ending a conflict as a third party.
There is nothing wrong with thinking war is bad, the problem comes when thinking that because it's bad the right response to all situations is to do nothing. It's an attempt to paint the world in black and white when that's not reality. The opponents in the above situations won't just sit back and say "Well you're a pacifist so since you asked so nicely we are stopping our war making peace and retreating to our own country."