Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi. - George Orwell.

Sorry to say, there are very few intellectual defenses of pacifism. It’s just not practical, eh? Even Einstein clearly categorized pacifism as outside the realm of intellectual thought.

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is abhorrent. My attitude is not derived from intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred. - Albert Einstein

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