Reply #87: I don't think I could share *that* level of enthusiasm

[Nuclear Unicorn]

When I go to a military museum and see hardware by the ton (literally) that is designed for the sole purpose of killing people, my emotional reaction is positive, not negative. To be precise, it's "Cool...!"

I don't lay the moral burden of what I am about to say at your feet so please don't take this personal because it is NOT.

I have always been a pacifist and still am. I think books will end more wars than bombs. Yet, as I said, I am pro-self defense. I understand the need to resist those whose only intent is aggressive violence. I get it.

But war is something very personal to me even though I myself have never seen it. Even good people who fight good fights suffer for it. It touches my life every day because the man I love suffers from it. He is a good and wonderful man and I hurt when he hurts even though, on balance, things are better than they were before. I find nothing "cool" about war or its tools. I just want peace.