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Re: John McCain
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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
I agree. IMO, it would be evil to refuse to defend someone being attacked.
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Absolutely. Total pacifism makes no sense because there are times when you have conflicting ethical actions. Where no action results in an evil just as action will result in something you normally would not do. To not defend one's wife or child against the actions of a murderer attacking them is abandoning ones responsibility as the head of the household and in my mind would be a sin.
It all comes back to pacifist not understanding the difference between murder and a just reason for taking a person's life.
It may be Old Testament but remember that God's moral law does not change and in the OT we had one of the 10 commandments telling the children of Israel not to kill yet they killed many, many people and that was not considered a violation of the commandment because it was not murder.
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