...finish reading this when you get the chance:
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/conam10.txt "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: ...A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stewart Mill