"Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced": A Response to Recent Commentaries

"Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced": A Response to Recent Commentaries

*Correspondence to: Solomon R. Benatar, Email: [email protected] Copyright: © 2017 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided th...

The Pill Really Can Be Mightier Than the Sword: A Response to Recent Commentaries

We appreciate the four commentaries that add new material and fresh perspectives to our article “The pill is mightier than the sword.” In emphasizing the role of voluntary family planning and girls’ education as achievable strategies with a potential to make the world a more peaceable place, we did not mean to oversimplify or disregard the intrinsic complexity of human conflict. On the whole, t...

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