Peace and war are not at ends as most people think. They are lumped together, they are two sides of the same coin, they are the yin and yang of society.
Political pacifists are hypocrites. They advocate non-violence but turn around and give your slave owners wages and pay for your 'protection' with your own money.
They free themselves of violence.
Individuals need to control their own violence.
Pacifism is not the answer, it only leads you to delegate your capability to use violence onto someone else.
Hobbes explains, we engage in the creation of a type of social contract in order to survive. As we are trying to avoid the state of war, we group together to keep us safe. Yet, nations are surviving within a state of nature, a state of anarchy. They are always subject to the same state of war, and they, although not perfectly, manage to settle there affairs... well, as best as ever-growing monopolizers can.
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