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So after doing some thinking on it, I've really started to think that maybe I am a pacifist after all. So I guess there goes my 'I'm not a pacifist but' line.
I came to this conclusion after realizing that I don't in general consider it necessary to have to consider a position possible to universally apply to consider it a goal that should reasonably always be aspired to. Also because I think it's quite compatible to hold pacifist beliefs and still be opposed to passivity (which is not the same thing) and other behaviors that I may take issue with in certain pacifist efforts.
I've been strongly anti-war for as long as I can remember and I've also come to feel more and more strongly that individual violence actually solves much less than people think it does, and often just serves to make a situation worse.
All this being said, I think it's definitely possible to read things into this that I explicitly did not say, so I'll just say that I think some of those assumptions would very much be wrong.
I came to this conclusion after realizing that I don't in general consider it necessary to have to consider a position possible to universally apply to consider it a goal that should reasonably always be aspired to. Also because I think it's quite compatible to hold pacifist beliefs and still be opposed to passivity (which is not the same thing) and other behaviors that I may take issue with in certain pacifist efforts.
I've been strongly anti-war for as long as I can remember and I've also come to feel more and more strongly that individual violence actually solves much less than people think it does, and often just serves to make a situation worse.
All this being said, I think it's definitely possible to read things into this that I explicitly did not say, so I'll just say that I think some of those assumptions would very much be wrong.