[Buddha-l] Re: Buddhist pacifism

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 13:25 -0400, curt wrote:

> This is a nice example of what bothers me. If Buddhism is not pacifist, 
> then it must be pro-violence. That is a typical "pacifist" stance. 

Well, no. You are right that such an argument, if one were to make it,
would commit the fallacy of false dichotomy, but you are wrong in
suggesting it is "typical" of pacifists to commit this fallacy. It is
also possible that you failed to detect the irony in Mr Dillion's
message. 



-- 
Richard Hayes