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(War Again: It has got to stop)
War is marketed to us as a collective enterprise; a team effort, that boils down to good vs evil. No matter what team we align with, we are told that our team is good and the other team is evil. In some instances this may be true, but mostly it isn’t.
In war, being on the morally right side is a crap shoot, because the teams are rarely ideologically sorted. Instead, the teams (sides) are based on group identity; geographical, religious and ethnic. Group identity is the metric that the aggressors use to justify their violence. They perceive the enemy as an amorphous blob, instead of a loosely connected collection of individuals, where each one is valued.
The aggressors of war try to convince us that their goals supersede the violence they inflict on the group. The horror of the murders they sponsor are marketed as necessity. Many of us seem to accept any excuse for the violence, even though it’s impossible to find even a snippet of reason in bombing hospitals or maiming and starving scores of people. Even to make a poorly defined point and achieve a much too broadly defined goal.
It’s hard to speak against war, so we play along because we are gaslit into believing that loyalty to the home team means refraining from speech that is perceived as critical. Meanwhile, time keeps on rolling while the mass suffering endured by the victims of war, diminishes us all.
War, as a way to resolve conflict is barbaric. We must eradicate the practice of war. The universal and complete rejection of war, is our best solution. We must amplify and advocate for rejection of war, at every opportunity. Upholding the rights of all people is more important than the difficulty of compromise and change.
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