A pacifist person is one who opposes the use of war or violence to resolve a dispute. If you are a pacifist, talking is the way to resolve your differences with others instead of fighting. The pacifist demands to practice non-violent resistance or to engage in violent conflict at his own risk solely for the sake of the victims. Pacifism is often ridiculed as an uncompromising lifestyle of well-to-do people in democratic nations who don't want to get their hands dirty. And this is likely how indifferent and uncompromising people sell their mindsets.
There are those who think that pacifists seek to overcome the reflex of aggressiveness when they are dealt with, which is difficult to do, but it is a good thing. Pacifists also see that retaliation, this very satisfying feeling of revenge, will lead to endless circles of revenge. This is something that is easy to see and difficult to maintain.
Pacifism is not a natural state of mind, it has to be taught and practiced. But it should n't lead to looking the other way when people are being victimized, but to standing up for them when you're strong enough, or standing by their side if that's all you can do.
At the national level, pacifism means a policy that acts according to the principles of humanity, peaceful, whenever possible, non-violent, when it can be safely said that you are impartial and have no interests of your own, and that your claim should be public, international and academic scrutiny.
Pacifism encompasses a spectrum of views, including the belief that international disputes can and should be resolved peacefully, calls for the abolition of war and military institutions, opposition to any organization of society through governmental force (anarchism or libertarian pacifism), rejection of the use of physical violence to obtain political, economic or social objectives, the elimination of force and the opposition to violence under any circumstance, including the defense of oneself and of others. The historians of pacifism Peter Brock and Thomas Paul Socknat define pacifism "in the generally accepted sense in English-speaking areas" as "an unconditional rejection of all forms of war."
