Sometimes they shoot conscientious objectors. How to define those who are to be shot?
Conscientious Objector, or CO, generally relates to war, but can relate to anything: Romney/Obamacare, school choice, you name it.
Assuming freedom is the ether necessary for us to have free will, then the ability to choose is fundamental to being human. Conscientious objection is grounded in freedom, and freedom assumes all is voluntary. Violence violates freedom, so conscientious objection is necessarily nonviolent. But one confusion is the homophonic word but profoundly different meanings.
Although pacifism is what conscientious objectors are all about, that is making peace, people speak of conscientious objection as though they were passivists.
Although pacifism is what conscientious objectors are all about, that is making peace, people speak of conscientious objection as though they were passivists.
You see above in the verb and adjective form the sense, the difference, emerges.
Tohei Sensei, aikido chief instructor and the only ju-dan awarded, taught about positive non fighting, that is dealing with violence peacefully. To pacify the violent is the work of pacifists. Tohei contrasted positive non-fighting with negative non-fighting, for example, running away form a fight is negative non-fighting. Passivism would be a form of negative non-fighting.
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