[Buddha-l] Re: Buddhist pacifism

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:27 -0400, curt wrote:

> I don't think we are talking about what Buddhists "ought to do". 

We are not. I am.

> We are trying to decide whether or not the Buddhist religion is inherently 
> pacifist. 

No, we are not. You are.

> My beef is with people who want to argue that "Pacifist Buddhism" IS
> Buddhism, period. 

Well, if you find someone who wants to argue that, by all means, have a
beef. I think, however, that you may have just bludgeoned yet another
straw man to pulp with the might hammer of prapanca.

-- 
Richard Hayes