Pacifism

in German published 2017-11

Strict pacifism stands for absolute nonviolence and has ideological characteristics.

There is little talk about pacifism today, since there have been conflicts in the recent past where it has become clear that strict pacifism is an absurd ideology.

However, I think we should bring a moderate type of pacifism back to the debating table. Weapons should really only be resorted to if there are no other options. It was wrong to intervene in Iraq, Libya and Syria!

In recent years there are two principle reasons for armed conflicts:

• minorities without any autonomous rights are held in the central state by force of arms in order to preserve the unity of the states. How many deaths is the unity of a state worth? It should become customary law that all minorities should be allowed to vote on how many autonomous rights they wish to claim.

• Over the past two thousand years, ideologies and religions have repeatedly led to catastrophic wars.