On Selective Pacifism & other Oddities

[Luke Weiger]

> You have to read the arguments charitably. If someone whom you know is not
a
> pacifist puts forward an argument that, taken one way, implies pacificism,
> and taken another, does not, why not interpret it the second way?

Because one would have to be charitable to the point of reconstruction to
interpret it the second way.  "The war is wrong because innocent civilians
will be killed" becomes "the war is wrong because many more innocent
civilians will be killed than saved."  I think I know why so many are fonder
of the first formulation: its truth is apparent to all while the second
requires taxing verification and analysis.

-- Luke


> The first way makes for diverting but increasingly irritated and angry
discussion. jks