Andrea Yates verdict - huh?

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So, you're a pacifist until you determine you're not a pacifist. Interesting.
My error -- I associate profanity with aggression. Perhaps it's because the majority of your posts feature both profanity and aggression so intricately interlocked that I became confused on your claim to have a calm demeanor.


pacifist

adj : opposed to war [syn: pacifist(a), pacifistic, dovish] n : someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes [syn: pacificist, disarmer]

I don't see any reference to a threshold whereupon asses are to be kicked. Perhaps you might need to look up what the word hypocrite means.
I find it remarkable you can foreward Ghandi as a reference and put this statement as your conclusion. It shows a dexterity of mind that borders on schism.

Bull crap.

"Among the many misdeeds of the British Empire in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." Ghandi.

Even he understood that polite non violent protest and negotation could fail, and from there on, there was only revolution. Bloodshed. But only as a last resort. He understood the need for arms, guns, weaponry to empower the masses. He didn't like them, but he understood the need to have them, and if need be, use them. Is that a schism or reason? Ghandi was also a firm believer that an armed society is a polite society.

And reread your own quote about pacifism... That word, disarmer. To disarm. To disable. To put down and remove a threat.

Even the Dalai Lama, a DEVOUT pacifist says it is entirely reasonable to kill somebody in defense of your own life, provided that they are trying to kill you. But if they are only trying to hurt you, you should do nothing. Again, schism or reason? Would you call him a hypocrite too? What about Ghandi?

The dexterity of your mind needs a bit of a work out.