My thoughts when I read this question is that there are so many degrees of pacifism and so many degrees of being for or against something, “being against pacifism” is a meaninglessly binary concept. I mean, to some people pacifism means not being aggressive, while others reject all forms of violence and won’t hit back no matter how much they get hit. Orwell was specifically addressing how to deal with nazi Germany in the lead-up to WWII, not to pacifism as a peaceful attitude in general. Which pacifism are you talking about?
On social media complexity always gets reduced to swiping left/right or voting up/down. This very stark and false oversimplification, mostly for the sake of thinking less and scrolling faster, has trained us to reduce every issue to a 100% right side and a million % wrong one. Perfect good vs utter evil. Let’s not keep doing that.
My thoughts when I read this question is that there are so many degrees of pacifism and so many degrees of being for or against something, “being against pacifism” is a meaninglessly binary concept. I mean, to some people pacifism means not being aggressive, while others reject all forms of violence and won’t hit back no matter how much they get hit. Orwell was specifically addressing how to deal with nazi Germany in the lead-up to WWII, not to pacifism as a peaceful attitude in general. Which pacifism are you talking about?
On social media complexity always gets reduced to swiping left/right or voting up/down. This very stark and false oversimplification, mostly for the sake of thinking less and scrolling faster, has trained us to reduce every issue to a 100% right side and a million % wrong one. Perfect good vs utter evil. Let’s not keep doing that.