Outsourcing
In this post, addressing Tim’s pacifism, Xrlq says in comments:
I’m not sure what’s so non-violent about relying on a home security system. Doesn’t that thing call the police so they can come after the intruders with guns? Leaving one’s violence to the cops isn’t pacifism, it’s outsourcing.
Heh. I guess if you call the police you’re not a pacifist after all.
March 1st, 2006 at 1:24 pm
I wish I could remember who said a pacifist that calls for help from armed men is “outsourcing the violence.” IMO, a pacifist that doesn’t call for help is still outsourcing – because pacifists survive only where good citizens who see them being robbed and beaten will do something about it.
March 1st, 2006 at 9:10 pm
So is the correct citizen’s response to an attack on a pacifist to let him get pacified? (There could be a societal survival benefit to doing so – if enough of ’em got pacified early on they might not reproduce, limiting the risk of expanding the pool of pacifists. I assume it is politically incorrect so to think, though.)