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To: Vermont Lt

Interdependent great powers have started shooting at each other before. War itself makes very little sense. Why do people stand and shoot each other, when they could run away and survive? Non-rational reasons having to do with patriotism, love of home and country, esprit de corps and a dozen other things that do not compute.


6 posted on 08/18/2020 9:33:44 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Interdependent great powers have started shooting at each other before. War itself makes very little sense. Why do people stand and shoot each other, when they could run away and survive? Non-rational reasons having to do with patriotism, love of home and country, esprit de corps and a dozen other things that do not compute.


Just wow. Read your words slowly and let you lips move.

The life you life is because others fought for those things.


11 posted on 08/18/2020 9:39:57 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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