But today, wars need fewer soldiers and more technology; ergo, the number of civilian dead or mutilated, usually the weakest part of the population, increases. Not to mention the cowardly strategy of attacking essential infrastructures, provoking cold, incommunication, and starvation. The way to stop wars is to demilitarize young males' minds, spread a pacifist, non-violent culture, ban the normalized use of weapons in daily life, and promote conscientious objection to military service. Britain's feminist conscience is more necessary than ever because another world is possible, and war is a conventionally transmitted practice, not a genetic servitude mandatory in humans.
Humanity wants peace, in general. The problem is the 1% who own economic and military power, those who rule opinion through politics and media. They are parasites on this planet, always safe but impelling others to kill and die. Do you think they act in the general interest?
The remedy against them is more education, more (real) democracy, feminism, environmentalism, equal access to resources, and of course, pacifism. This requires urgent action and attitude from every one of us, the sum of our forces. What is the point of waiting to see what happens if it is too late?
Totally agree. And I wonder where is the exception to the sixth commandment 'do not kill', for those who are believers, or/and where is the exception in human rights for the rest.
Some like to spread the idea of the other as an alien enemy, not a neighbour, a brother, an equal. Because the benefits of their business grows up with hate and confrontation.
War is a route to fame, money, power, and probably sex along the way. That foursome exerts more influence on most people than peace and tranquility, and has throughout history. To expect it to end is a nice thought, but one doomed, at least for the moment.
For me it is not a 'beautiful wish': it's an attitude, an activism, a fight for a better world. And if war and misery advance, I have more reasons to follow that path. You never know when the ghost can knock on your door, bearing in mind the leaders in power.
For myself, am a pacifist, for others, will do what can be done, preferably without harming anyone. Humanity at this stage, does not seem prone to seeking peace, so much as seeking material things or failing that, fame, and its various forms.
But today, wars need fewer soldiers and more technology; ergo, the number of civilian dead or mutilated, usually the weakest part of the population, increases. Not to mention the cowardly strategy of attacking essential infrastructures, provoking cold, incommunication, and starvation. The way to stop wars is to demilitarize young males' minds, spread a pacifist, non-violent culture, ban the normalized use of weapons in daily life, and promote conscientious objection to military service. Britain's feminist conscience is more necessary than ever because another world is possible, and war is a conventionally transmitted practice, not a genetic servitude mandatory in humans.
The Creed of a Just War is a dreadful mistake, it ignores the fact that it is really just war, under another guise.
Humanity wants peace, in general. The problem is the 1% who own economic and military power, those who rule opinion through politics and media. They are parasites on this planet, always safe but impelling others to kill and die. Do you think they act in the general interest?
The remedy against them is more education, more (real) democracy, feminism, environmentalism, equal access to resources, and of course, pacifism. This requires urgent action and attitude from every one of us, the sum of our forces. What is the point of waiting to see what happens if it is too late?
Shocking i say. Quite.
Totally agree. And I wonder where is the exception to the sixth commandment 'do not kill', for those who are believers, or/and where is the exception in human rights for the rest.
Some like to spread the idea of the other as an alien enemy, not a neighbour, a brother, an equal. Because the benefits of their business grows up with hate and confrontation.
War is a route to fame, money, power, and probably sex along the way. That foursome exerts more influence on most people than peace and tranquility, and has throughout history. To expect it to end is a nice thought, but one doomed, at least for the moment.
For me it is not a 'beautiful wish': it's an attitude, an activism, a fight for a better world. And if war and misery advance, I have more reasons to follow that path. You never know when the ghost can knock on your door, bearing in mind the leaders in power.
For myself, am a pacifist, for others, will do what can be done, preferably without harming anyone. Humanity at this stage, does not seem prone to seeking peace, so much as seeking material things or failing that, fame, and its various forms.
May you succeed further than others have so far.