It's not a choice. Without the gauntlets, I am a conduit and capacitor for all electrical charges around me--they don't hurt me.

Unfortunately, they do hurt everyone else. [ One half an ampere, and enough voltage to push it through the heart, and humans are dead without a chance of being resuscitated. Noriko knows this intimately well. ]

Peace through diplomacy is a great option, I'll give you that. It's admirable, if all parties are amenable to diplomatic solutions; it sucks, but there are times when that's not ever going to happen. But if the goal is annihilation, occupation, or subjugation...diplomacy will never win. At that point...once violence is your last resort, make sure you resort to enough of it.