| If an atheist may add a comment: there are many conflicts among humans, because resources are scarce, and living creatures have in-built drives to survive and reproduce and thus want to acquire resources. All conflicts over resources are ultimately settled by force and violence, although, in the ideal world, that force and violence has been rationalized and reified into a 'state' or an inter-state system, and rules for access to resources laid out.
Pacifists only exist in countries with strong states (militaries and police forces) that can defend the country from external predators and keep the internal predators under control.
Or, to put it another way, all armed prophets have conquered and all unarmed prophets have failed. |