Pacifism is a disease
Am I pro-war? Obviously not, but I'm aware that pacifism is a mental utopism that does not exist in nature and pursuing it does nothing but create weakness and stagnation and therefore more submission, weakness, numbness, until it expresses itself in a creeping tyranny.
Countries like India, home to the sick Gandhian concept of non-violence, are among the countries with the most poverty, social injustice and violence.
I refer to Taoism that always takes nature as a supreme example. There is no "peaceful" species in nature, pacifism is not part of human nature and if there is to be a goal, this could be the search for a balance that allows us to consciously choose what to express in harmony with the present moment.
Said balance is an underlying thread between two extremes that must always and in any case coexist (order and chaos, action and non-action, masculine and feminine, etc.). The moment one of the two weakens the result is like rotting swamp water or indomitable chaos.
My archetype is the Jedi of Star Wars and not some intoxicated guru.
m.m.