Comments on: Pacifism http://www.demandmore.org/2006/02/14/pacifism/ DEMAND MORE Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:31:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Imre http://www.demandmore.org/2006/02/14/pacifism/comment-page-1/#comment-27811 Imre Fri, 15 May 2009 11:56:10 +0000 http://www.demandmore.org/?p=70#comment-27811 (I'm from Holland, so please don't mind my English) When I talk about the subject 'pacifism' with people they mostly say that 'war' is in the human nature. You're born with it. So they think that the firt human being, whether that's Adam or an unknown, was born with thoughts of hate and death. It makes me sad to hear people say something like that, doesn't this mean that one generation brainwashes the next? Well, it's clear to me that the wars are getting worse and worse when the years pass by. Perhaps it is too late for the world society to understand, to follow and to believe the defenition of pacifism. WAR is NOT in human nature, but the past FEEDS us with these horrible holocausts-thoughts and more. (I’m from Holland, so please don’t mind my English)

When I talk about the subject ‘pacifism’ with people they mostly say that ‘war’ is in the human nature. You’re born with it.
So they think that the firt human being, whether that’s Adam or an unknown, was born with thoughts of hate and death. It makes me sad to hear people say something like that, doesn’t this mean that one generation brainwashes the next? Well, it’s clear to me that the wars are getting worse and worse when the years pass by.

Perhaps it is too late for the world society to understand, to follow and to believe the defenition of pacifism. WAR is NOT in human nature, but the past FEEDS us with these horrible holocausts-thoughts and more.

]]> By: Iain Macdonald http://www.demandmore.org/2006/02/14/pacifism/comment-page-1/#comment-17832 Iain Macdonald Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:19:03 +0000 http://www.demandmore.org/?p=70#comment-17832 In a speech in the House of Commons on 20 July, 1934, the Liberal MP Robert Bernays described a visit he made to Germany: "I remember very vividly, a few months after the famous pacifist resolution at the Oxford Union visiting Germany and having a talk with a prominent leader of the young Nazis. He was asking about this pacifist motion and I tried to explain it to him. There was an ugly gleam in his eye when he said, "The fact is that you English are soft". Then I realized that the world enemies of peace might be the pacifists." In a speech in the House of Commons on 20 July, 1934, the Liberal MP Robert Bernays described a visit he made to Germany:

“I remember very vividly, a few months after the famous pacifist resolution at the Oxford Union visiting Germany and having a talk with a prominent leader of the young Nazis. He was asking about this pacifist motion and I tried to explain it to him. There was an ugly gleam in his eye when he said, “The fact is that you English are soft”. Then I realized that the world enemies of peace might be the pacifists.”

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