User blog comment:Snowpaw the Wild/Essay: Death in the Redwall Series/@comment-3075225-20101003223100

Oh come on, pacifism is nothing to be ashamed of.

The problem is that pacifism is, to some extent, ihnuman (see SuperNews on that one).

Territorial struggle is in the human's, to some extent in the general ape's, and to some lesser extreme extent in the general mammal's nature.

And those are by far not the only ones. If humans would be totally pacifist in nature, we would not have gunpowder brought to use in that way.

Whether humanity would have survived to this day while having a pacifist nature, is questionable though.