Barbarity
Been pondering this post for a while, still not exactly sure what I will achieve by writing it, other than to tell others what I observe. So here goes. Since the beginning of man, violence has been something that we have proven time and time again we are very good at. However all this violence has a cost. When we expose our young men and women to the conditioning for war, we eat away at their ideas of what is right and wrong. Let me explain what I mean. The idea of training someone for war is to train them to kill someone else. In normal circumstances that would be seen as outside the normal for most human beings. Yes I know there is more to military training than that, but at its core its kill or be killed. I was reminded this evening after watch the documentary war in the pacific, of how the barbarity of war blurred the lines of what is barbaric and what is not. They made the comment that people were not in anguish about dropping the bom...