Your right to life is not separated from your right to defend that life.

[Aliantha]

Originally Posted by LJ

a pacifist that chooses not to defend their life is deciding that being a pacifist is more important than living....it's their right to defend or not.

i think you're actually discussing the decision to act on your right...your right to defend the life that is yours by rights........it's all the same right. the choice does not effect it.

So you agree they have a right to defend themself or not?

I think I know what I'm discussing. I just don't understand why it's hard for you to understand.

Do all rights to do with the person belong to the same right? What about the right to breath fresh air? Is that the same right? Just because if you don't breath you'll die doesn't mean you've decided not breathing is more important than living. It simply means you decided not to breath as is your right, and a consequence of that is dying.