Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for November 06, 2023

So is it.

That question was answered in 1969.

https://www.youtube.Com/watch?v=01-2pNCZiNk

It’s a lose-lose situation.

Why can’t we all just live in peace and harmony?

Same result, with or without war. But it would be a lot nicer to avoid that particular cause.

Some are shot with bullets/some go down in flames/but most will die inch by inch/playing at petty games

Was it Gandhi or MLK who observed that The problem with “eye for an eye,” is that sooner or later everyone is blind

We are like a wound that doesn’t heal?

We’re worse than the Klingons.

War doesn’t determine who’s right, only who’s left.

Maybe not “everyone” – but it certainly thins the herd

The Israelis could “turn the other cheek”, but Hamas and the other Arabs would not tire of slapping cheeks, more literally until the last Jew was dead.

That said, in WW2, “Bomber” Harris of the RAF stated the policy of including civilians as targets, not only demoralize and disrupt industry, but to encourage an uprising pointing to lesser ones that occurred in WW1.

If only that one group of humans would just let themselves be exterminated by the other side of “humans”.

Everyone dies anyway. But apparently most of the eager and willing war pushers anticipate no merit/glory/adulation/winning in merely living as good a life as they can until then.

Eye for an eye is just a one step process. The eye of someone who does something wrong. He or she does not get to collect an eye for punishment that is deserved. There’s not a lot of thieves or repeat one in the middle east where they cut off the hand that steals. Same thing with rape.

Healthy minds hate war, but smart minds don’t hold both sides of a war equally accountable.

War is what happens when deadly, destructive armaments are commanded by the mind of a child. There are rational ways to solve problems without murder and blasting each other back to the stone age—but like 2 siblings at each other’s throats, “rational” has nothing to do with it.

The more we kill each other the fewer of us they’ll be

When my friends kill your friends and you friends kill my friends

The more we kill each other the fewer of us they’ll be

“War! Uh Huh! What is it good for?…” Population thinning.

War leads the Four. Famine and Plague get the survivors. And Death claims all the credit.

Here’s an idea! Start every meeting to solve issues with a joke told by each of the parties involved. International issues, congress, labor strike talks. Everyone starts with a lighter heart and a more open mind.