Anorexia Proves Pacifism Wrong.

Pacifism is one of the greatest and one of the worst ideas in all of history.
It’s one of the greatest ideas because world peace is something we all would love to have. Every superficial, blonde beauty queen ever to walk the earth would tell you that. (It doesn’t take a brain surgeon.) No violence about race, religion, politics, domestic disputes, etc. would just be plain nice. Our newscast would be about as long a commercial. We could cut down our 5 o’clock news down to about 4 min. We could just watch the news during the break of our favorite sitcom. I’d rather just watch the sports, weather and a story on the world’s biggest cookie anyway, than see war and shootings every day.
Pacifism is also one of the worst ideas in all of history. Let me set something straight first, when I talk about pacifism, I am talking of the strictest kind. Strict pacifism opposes the use of any kind of force under any circumstances. I am not talking about a person who decides that one fight or one war is not worth fighting, because sometimes those come about and it’s our right to agree or not agree with something that important. I would also say that we should choose our fights and battles very carefully because where there’s violence, lives are changed.
The problem with pacifism is that it’s not only idealistic, it’s naïve. When one becomes a pacifist, he has the idea that “If everyone just did what I am doing, there would be no wars.”, which is true, but not logical. The only way pacifism works is if everyone does it. If some people decide to be violent they end up looting, raping and murdering all of the pacifists, because they can’t defend themselves. There’s nothing they can do. If pacifism only works if everyone does it, then it won’t work, and if it doesn’t work, than it’s stupid to practice it. There is not one voluntary thing that we humans do, that everybody does (or everybody doesn’t do). Anorexia proves it. If we can’t get everyone in the world to eat, something that’s pleasurable and fulfilling to most people, something that we instinctively do to survive, than how can we possibly get everyone to be peaceful, which is something that is often against our human instincts?

** A NEW CHALLENGE ARISES* “There is not one voluntary thing that we humans do, that everybody does (or everybody doesn’t do).” Is there?*