Innocence Riots

Perhaps some of this is due to the cultural phenomena which have prevented that part of the world from making the progress--on many levels--that so characterize the Western world.During the Dark Ages, the Arab world was a center of knowledge, but that has been left behind. There's a lot to what you say, but I think that in that part of the world strength is a trait that is greatly admired. Perhaps it is better to be feared than to be liked? Lately, in that part of the world, we have neither.

Another opinion:

Those who refuse to support and defend a state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be defined as murder in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be Using deadly weapons inside city limits, or Creating a traffic hazard, or Endangering bystanders, or other misdemeanor. However, the state may reasonably place a closed season on these exotic asocial animals whenever they are in danger of becoming extinct. An authentic buck pacifist has rarely been seen off Earth, and it is doubtful that any have survived the trouble there...regrettable, as they had the biggest mouths and the smallest brains of any of the primates. The small-mouthed variety of anarchist has spread through the Galaxy at the very wave front of the Diaspora; there is no need to protect them. But they often shoot back.

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Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love