he said, maybe they're fairweather pacifist. it is easy to be nonresistant in peace time but then when you are threatened, then your principles go out the window. perhaps, he was right. but franklin was familiar the moravians, he was familiar with bethlehem and for him it was evidence that these were sort of a sham. i would like to give them the benefit of the doubt and if we read the accounts and we go back to the sources, we actually discover what he was thinking we actually see that he was very much concerned with simply providing self-defense and preventative measures. so he is thinking to himself i don't want to inflict violence on even our enemies. i don't want our people to have to do this as well. he counsels these guards to shoot only to wound any enemies that might attack. he is also thinking that by building up this protection, it is actually deterring an attack that hostile indians will not attack if they see these measures that they have implemented. in fact, this is the case. the attack on bethlehem never came. per