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Is an unflinching commitment to always be a pacifist morally desirable?
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November 13, 2005

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Oliver Leaman
November 22, 2005 (changed November 22, 2005) Permalink

Is an unflinching commitment to always be anything morally desirable? This suggests that nothing at all could move one to take a different view, and that sort of absolutism might well be felt undesirable. We normally think that it is preferable to take each situation as it comes and then assess how one ought to act. If someone were to say that there were absolutely no circumstances in which violence would be acceptable, it would be difficult to know how to talk to him or her, since there are circumstances in which violence just does seem appropriate.

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