Reply #10: Already? But we're still digesting turkey.

[Gregorian]

That's more than a war on Christmas. That's the war on peace.

Sometimes little kids are evil. And sometimes little evil kids don't grow up. They like to do the things George Bush did as a kid. Blowing up frogs. Shooting people with his bb gun. Trashing his college rental house, and then not paying for the damage. But even worse, some like to make war. It's like heroine.

Peace is boring. And what's worse, it takes brains. And sometimes even effort. And even harder yet, forgiveness. And equally as difficult, abandoning the addictive craving of greed. All kinds of things that revolve around peace are just a pain in the ass. And it's highly unprofitable.

War is exciting. It's easy. It is addictive. It's profitable. You can take whole societies down in just a fraction of the time and effort it took to carefully construct them. One can become godlike as people cower in the shadow of one's threat. The toys are fantastic. Everything is higher quality than all other products ever made.

The truth is very different than how it appears. Peace is actually more productive and profitable and enjoyable, in the long run. War costs magnitudes more, despite how the initial flow of goods and money go.


I love stories like yours. I wonder if the checker gave it any thought afterwards. It's pretty seldom that people are brave enough to speak out. You really deserve credit for that.