"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and
degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that
nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for
which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his
own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of
being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than
himself" -- John Stuart Mill

I'd like to suggest this is a forerunner to the Gandhi approach of
pacifism...

Firstly, It is often said that the pen is mightier than the sword.
Killing someone doesn't convert them to any cause, and they will still
feel the same way in the afterlife, maybe reincarnate and carry on
where they left off. Whereas diplomatic effort CAN actually change
peoples minds permanently through the forces of reason.

Gandhi did fight for his country, in a very patriot manner. After he'd
moved away from some of the extremist factions in the Indian
independence movement, he decried the use of terrorism, and he was
very supportive of the police, who he didn't blame for taking orders
from above. He spent a few years in Jail periodically for public order
violations with regard to demonstrations etc.

My view on war, is, again ,that it is game. Whilst conventional war
involve violence, real wars of mankind consists of fights within the
mind of each person. It is when that troubled mind is projected onto
third parties that the conventional war breaks out.

Should we fight for what we believe in? The answer is certainly yes,
and sadly far for many don't, myself included regretfully. But
fighting for your beliefs does not have to exercise any form of
violence, intimation, injury or property damage.

Here in the UK we have elections, you can vote and stand as a
candidate. All takes a lot of time and effort, but we must do it all
the same if we are to win this fight!

To refer back to Mill's point:
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing
which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable
creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by
the exertions of better men than
himself