Extreme Pacifism Essay

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Extreme pacifists have a strict discipline they follow that does not condone war for any reason and believes and advocates peace. Extreme pacifists live a way of life that is strict and adherent to these guidelines to which causes its followers to not be able to participate in many functions or organizations that can result or advocate violence. I don’t necessarily agree with this view and would not find it realistic enough to be able to apply it in our society today. It’s an admirable quality to which extreme pacifists religiously hold and abide by but it appears to me to be to idealistic and not easily attainable in our society, at least that’s the way I see it. The concept of “just war” began with Augustine, and in his own way to rationalize and clarify what he believed outlined a war to be considered just. Augustine was able to outline and categorize just war into jus in bellum, “the necessary …conditions for justifying engagement in war” and jus in bello “the necessary conditions for conducting war in a just manner.” The final stage, jus pos bellum, “…seeks to regulate the ending of wars, and to ease the transition from war back to peace.”
The war after 9/11 is an example of an unjust war. I think going into war was a rushed decision by the pressure that was placed upon the American government, and as a result hundreds of Soldiers, and non-combatants have perished. The war that resulted after 9/11 was a war that was rushed by high emotions and little evidence to justify the act of going into war.
One of the main motives behind actually going to war aside from the acts that occurred on 9/11 was the belief that there were weapons of mass destruction. Weapons of mass destruction were never found. Going to war w...

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...ill allow us to work cohesively for that same goal. If the idea of justice makes us better people then I don’t see the harm of continuously striving for that goal.
Karl Marx does not agree with capitalism and views it as a system that incapacitates workers and places them in a category that will almost never attain the wealth that their owners/employers have. Capitalism oppresses its citizens and makes them believe that a capitalist society is best. Society has been able to benefit greatly from capitalism but a major fault in capitalism is the dependency that exists between capitalism and us. The disproportion of wealth amongst the rich and poor in America creates and maintains a group of Americans that will either have too much money and another group that struggles to ascertain a piece of that wealth but will almost never reach the same level of wealth.