Reply #7: I saw someone killing ants.

[Gregorian]

I gave up killing insects when I realized that in order to stop the infestation I would have to kill them all. And that just wasn't going to happen. It may seem trivial, but this is what I mean- why kill a fly when you can just let them out? I open the door, and out they go. I kill it, and I have a mess.

I can't blame Osama. It doesn't mean I don't like America. It doesn't mean I'm not patriotic. It means I have empathy and I can understand that when a military occupies one's country I can expect them to be extremely upset about it. That leads to trouble.

I'm convinced that our Pentagon is the problem. Convinced that wars are designed. Finding Osama is a good goal, and one that doesn't require armies. Nor bombing other lands and people. When we let him go, I knew it wasn't about him. It's about America's military economy. We're subsidizing a segment of this country with an illegitimate economy. A war economy.

At the end of Seven Samurai, the two remaining Samurai look at the farmers whom they helped fight off bandits, and said that they were the losers. They fight battles, and the farmers farm. There is no winner in war. There are losers, but war never helped them. It just changed the situation.

I have been asking something what most people would consider ignorant. 50 million people died in world war two. How many people would Hitler have killed if we hadn't had that war? 50 million? I doubt it. Who knows what would have resulted. Furthermore, the Germans that came back from world war one were furious. That war helped the next war happen. Et cetera.

War begets war. It's a law of nature. And I'm sorry, but if people don't see that then they have ulterior motives for warring.

We can make this civilization work. Every day is a new beginning. Let's step in the right direction. It's that simple. It IS that simple. Argue about it, but anything that is hateful will result in hate. Only love and understanding will make this a better world. Abandon fear. Be brave. Be a fool. Be weak. Only then will we all win.