You want at least a stick large enough to hit back or scare away aggressors. I agree that a no war world would be best, but that can be achieved by mutual disarment, not by one sided pacifism.
In other words, if one doesn’t have power, they aren’t a pacifist, just weak.
Only once they have the ability to decimate the enemy, do they get to claim that they didn’t use said ability.
You want at least a stick large enough to hit back or scare away aggressors. I agree that a no war world would be best, but that can be achieved by mutual disarment, not by one sided pacifism.
In other words, if one doesn’t have power, they aren’t a pacifist, just weak.
Only once they have the ability to decimate the enemy, do they get to claim that they didn’t use said ability.
And if just one side refuses to disarm (which is perfectly sound decision seeing how superpowers act) nobody can disarm.