War seems to magnify our fight or flight response, manipulating it, preying on the slightest rush of adrenaline. Most people are simply either for war or against it; those for it often have the "fight" response, while those that are against it nourish the "flight" response.
I am notorious for my terrible flight response (note: jaywalking with Clay Whiteheart and seeing a car, then suddenly bolting in front of Clay and leaving him at least a fourth of a mile behind in Tates Creek traffic). Because of that reason, I see war as incredibly untimely. We live in a world that is incredibly advanced, and we can use our speaking words to say things instead of running with a gun like a disoriented dog. This is a new time. Almost all of us are past the grunting stage of humanity, past the flea picking and banana peeling. If we don't like something, we can verbalize our thoughts and work something out instead of firing mass destructives.
Saying this, I feel incredibly ignorant giving my opinion on war. There are people out there that know better than I do. We have been having wars for centuries, right? What's so wrong about that? Can you call it effective population control, can you call it natural human conflict, or can you call it stupidity? I don't know, I won't answer that. There isn't a solution for every situation. War should only happen if directly threatening an area. That seems simple enough, but where is the line drawn? Black and white does not exist in terms of war. All we can see are shades of grey and the occasional red from explosions.
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