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Abstract
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As a first approximation to greater accuracy in a value scale, the author tentatively adheres to the criterion that a good which moves toward a universal involving all people as an upper limit is higher than one that approaches a particular as a lower limit. From this theorem, 6 corollary criteria are derived: inclusiveness, permanence, irrevocability, congruency, cognitive completeness, and survival. When these criteria are used to evaluate the pacifist categories and non-pacifist categories as presented by a group 235 graduate students, the pacifist ones are indicated as having the higher values. In commenting on K. Dunlap's article (see XV: 1409) the author feels that only through the pacifists' way of persuasion can the efforts for peace succeed and that military action, even in resistance, is futile. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
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