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@Farmageddon:

Yeah, you'd think that. Unless of course you actually looked at the world around you. Then you'd realise no, we, as a whole, are not able to do that, at least not yet and probably not for a long time. Sucks, but it's true.

There's a difference between "can't" and "don't" want to.

Again, everyone agrees the world would be better witohut war and famine and all that crap and that if everyone was more rational and genuinelly cared about each other we could start to walk that way. But that's just not how the world is and that's just not how it's gonna be for a long time.

Yes, but as Ghandi said "you must be the change you wish to see in the world". If everyone person just sits back and waits for everyone else to take action, and for the world to change, then no change will ever take place. The reason why it will take such a "long time" is exactly because people often wat change, but wait aroud hoping other people take action.

Want to hate something, put your hate in the right place. As you said, it's not the army that starts a war, it's politicians. And they don't do that because they're evil politicians, they do that because they can and it's human nature. You may believe we're so different and above the rest of life. Well, we're not. In a sense we are, sure, and many of us have great capacity for empathy and clear thinking, but not we as a whole. Group thinking is inate to us, as is that us vs them mentality. Just look at a soccer game and think about it. We need a lot of conciouss effort and teaching to try and stop this natural mentality to rise and take control.

I'm not impressed by such arguments like "it's human nature", or "it's innane in us". People should try to better themselves, and stop making stupid excuses. Your example of football games is good though (it's also linked to the desire to be part of a "tribe", a primitive need which isn't satisified by modern society).

So I mantain your anger is misplaced. You hate this part of human nature, but you're still to give us a good reason to hate an army itself.

The reason why I dislike the army is because it's made up of people who lack individuality, who'd blindly follow someone, killing and destroing, all while thinking that what they're doing is right. Not to mention that they lack personal responsability, always blaming the one who gave them orders when they commit an atrocity, as if their free will just magically disappears when they're serving. Not all armies are evil, but all of them can be used for evil, as the soldiers will never know the difference, they'll just be "following orders".