'People are capable of atrocity but they can also change.' Photo: by Mykola Makhlai on Unsplash
Wars of words: Stephen Cox explores through fiction
‘The cogs in the real war machine are human.’
by Stephen Cox
4th March 2022
The pacifist case is based on the belief in redemption, and that the way of non-violence has power to change the human heart. But systems of aggression can be very resistant to such a change. Even Mohandas Gandhi is said to have questioned whether non-violent resistance to Hitler would have worked.
