Call me Damosthenes...
anonymous
June 28 2005, 23:40:47 UTC
The great soul Mahatma is one, with tears but not blood, for instance.
Warfare is well and good, until you ask one question... 'why' ?
War is a theatre where valor and honor can be won, but at the root of it, the causes of war is evil, not romantic.
War is because some people don't like some other peoples faces, or covet their land/resources.
No war exists where both sides are just defending themselves.
The root of it is greed, the result? No matter how romantic the notion you have, it is still just murder on a grand scale, genocide, sometimes not even face to face. Sometimes people just burn, forgotten kindling utterly vanished in an instant.
No one wins a war, pretty much everyone involved loses. In WWII, allies and axis alike spent their best sons and daughters like so much monopoly money. So what if they won honor, they stabbed justice in it's blind eye.
People say that it is naive to wish for peace on earth, for utopia.
That is the very belief that prevents it.
The only people that win a war are the defence contractors. And all they win is cash fucking money.
I say blatz to that. You wanna face off against me and fight for honor? Fine. You wanna cull a generation just so you can get rich?
War begets war begets famine begets pain begets war begets murder begets vengeance begets death.
Begets war.
Twelve year old children don't know any better, they've bin driven to a life of suffering.
Soldiers don't fight for honor, justice, they ain't superheroes. They fight cause they're told to by someone much bigger than them. Most I'm sure don't really think about the consequences, or else they'd be mad to trod that path.
The real hero breaks the cycle.
Only if we believe there is a better way can we jump off the armageddon rails.
Warfare is well and good, until you ask one question... 'why' ?
War is a theatre where valor and honor can be won, but at the root of it, the causes of war is evil, not romantic.
War is because some people don't like some other peoples faces, or covet their land/resources.
No war exists where both sides are just defending themselves.
The root of it is greed, the result? No matter how romantic the notion you have, it is still just murder on a grand scale, genocide, sometimes not even face to face. Sometimes people just burn, forgotten kindling utterly vanished in an instant.
No one wins a war, pretty much everyone involved loses. In WWII, allies and axis alike spent their best sons and daughters like so much monopoly money. So what if they won honor, they stabbed justice in it's blind eye.
People say that it is naive to wish for peace on earth, for utopia.
That is the very belief that prevents it.
The only people that win a war are the defence contractors. And all they win is cash fucking money.
I say blatz to that. You wanna face off against me and fight for honor? Fine. You wanna cull a generation just so you can get rich?
War begets war begets famine begets pain begets war begets murder begets vengeance begets death.
Begets war.
Twelve year old children don't know any better, they've bin driven to a life of suffering.
Soldiers don't fight for honor, justice, they ain't superheroes. They fight cause they're told to by someone much bigger than them. Most I'm sure don't really think about the consequences, or else they'd be mad to trod that path.
The real hero breaks the cycle.
Only if we believe there is a better way can we jump off the armageddon rails.
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