[defconw]

OK, that's comforting. I want to qualify that I am a product of public schools and under 50, so many of my teachers were guys ducking Vietnam. That being said....

Do you think that the first two guys that fired at each other in the first battle of the Civil War, didn't think it was all absurd?

[Windflier]

Do you think that the first two guys that fired at each other in the first battle of the Civil War, didn't think it was all absurd?

By the time men were squaring off in the fields, pointing rifles at each other, thoughts of how absurd it was for Americans to go to war with one another were long past.

We're in the stage of absurd thoughts today.