[Buddha-l] Re: Buddhism & War

Richard Hayes rhayes at unm.edu
Wed Sep 20 17:10:45 MDT 2006


On Wednesday 20 September 2006 12:03, Wong Weng Fai wrote:

> How about the use of force (even deadly force) to stop or prevent more
> widespread misery (that the other guy started)?

That has been tried. If the present state of the world can be used as 
evidence, I'd suggest that the verdict is that that strategy is a dismal 
failure.

-- 
Richard P. Hayes


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