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Refusing to fight, on principle, even when fighting would be easier.
means The belief that war and violence are never justified, and that conflicts should be settled by peaceful means instead.
from Coined in the early 1900s from French 'pacifisme,' built on Latin 'pax' (peace) and 'facere' (to make) — literally 'peace-making.' It emerged alongside international peace movements and congresses of that era, giving a single word to a stance that had existed in religious and philosophical traditions long before it had a name.
- not passivity
- Gandhi called it active resistance, not surrender
- etymology trick
- from pax plus facere, literally making peace
- costly conviction
- conscientious objectors have been jailed for refusing war
- strategic cousin
- nonviolent campaigns historically succeed more often than armed ones