You did make the kill for peace argument: “It is one thing to be a pacifist, but it is another to realise and accept sometimes violence is necessary to achieve a pacifism .”
And it is that moral relativism that leads one to totalitarian thinking, assuming one knows better and treating people as means to an end because as Trump put it: “I had a strong feeling that they were going to attack us first, so we had to hit them first”. Justification without justice.
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