{"id":8854,"date":"2011-11-11T21:58:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T02:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=8854"},"modified":"2011-11-11T21:58:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T02:58:26","slug":"111111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/111111\/","title":{"rendered":"11&#124;11&#124;11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8855\" title=\"Albert_Einstein_pacifism\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Albert_Einstein_pacifism1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"308\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This day of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Remembrance_Day\" target=\"_blank\">remembrance<\/a>, gratitude, and reflection also seems like a suitable time to (re)consider <strong>pacifism<\/strong>\u2026 following is an excerpt drawn from a useful and more in-depth online posting, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pacifism\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>+\u00a0 +\u00a0 +\u00a0 +\u00a0 +<\/p>\n<p>Pacifism  is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or  gaining advantage. Pacifism covers a spectrum of views ranging from the  belief that international disputes can and should be peacefully  resolved; to calls for the abolition of the institutions of the military  and war; to opposition to any organization of society through  governmental force (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anarcho-pacifism\" target=\"_blank\">anarchist<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Libertarian\" target=\"_blank\">libertarian<\/a> pacifism); to rejection of the use of physical violence to obtain  political, economic or social goals; to the obliteration of force except  in cases where it is absolutely necessary to advance the cause of  peace; to opposition to violence under any circumstance, including  defense of self and others.<\/p>\n<p>Pacifism may be based on moral principles (a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deontological\" target=\"_blank\">deontological<\/a> view) or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pragmatism\" target=\"_blank\">pragmatism<\/a> (a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Consequentialist\" target=\"_blank\">consequentialist<\/a> view). Principled pacifism holds that at some point along the spectrum  from war to interpersonal physical violence, such violence becomes  morally wrong. Pragmatic pacifism holds that the costs of war and  inter-personal violence are so substantial that better ways of resolving  disputes must be found\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Canada This day of remembrance, gratitude, and reflection also seems like a suitable time to (re)consider pacifism\u2026 following is an excerpt drawn from a useful and more in-depth online posting, here. +\u00a0 +\u00a0 +\u00a0 +\u00a0 + Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage. Pacifism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12,13,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}