Completely wrong. Both on a conceptual level and a practical one. On a conceptual level, there is no perpetual cycle of reciprocal violence. Reciprocal violence is a minor fraction of all violence in the world and is never 100% elastic (I.E. some proportion of people decline to reciprocate, so retaliation over time trends to zero), the much greater majority of violence is impulsive/uninstigated.

And on a practical level, advocating absolute pacifism in those disinclined to instigate violence only guarantees the egregious applications of violence only get worse, because that makes anyone inclined to instigate violence the automatic survivors, at which point they'll just keep doing what both came naturally and was successful ever more.

If you want overall violence to go down you want people unwilling to instigate violence over nothing but willing to punish instigating violence with even more overpowering violence, and for those people to be a greater force than the people willing to instigate violence for their own purposes

Completely wrong. Both on a conceptual level and a practical one. On a conceptual level, there is no perpetual cycle of reciprocal violence. Reciprocal violence is a minor fraction of all violence in the world and is never 100% elastic (I.E. some proportion of people decline to reciprocate, so retaliation over time trends to zero), the much greater majority of violence is impulsive/uninstigated.

And on a practical level, advocating absolute pacifism in those disinclined to instigate violence only guarantees the egregious applications of violence only get worse, because that makes anyone inclined to instigate violence the automatic survivors, at which point they'll just keep doing what both came naturally and was successful ever more.

If you want overall violence to go down you want people unwilling to instigate violence over nothing but willing to punish instigating violence with even more overpowering violence to be a greater force than people willing to instigate violence for their own purposes

Completely wrong. Both on a conceptual level and a practical one. On a conceptual level, there is no perpetual cycle of reciprocal violence. Reciprocal violence is a minor fraction of all violence in the world and is never 100% elastic (I.E. some proportion of people decline to reciprocate, so retaliation over time trends to zero), the much greater majority of violence is impulsive/uninstigated.

And on a practical level, advocating absolute pacifism in those disinclined to instigate violence only guarantees the egregious applications of violence only gets worse, because that makes anyone inclined to instigate violence the automatic survivors, at which point they'll just keep doing what both came naturally and was successful ever more.

If you want overall violence to go down you want people unwilling to instigate violence over nothing but willing to punish instigating violence with even more overpowering violence to be a greater force than people willing to instigate violence for their own gain.