All right. This is a long one, but necessary. 🕊️
It covers normal human behaviour and cognitive bias that war trauma and propaganda quickly exacerbates.
It looks at histories of collective punishment and the complexity of breaking from cycles of violence.
And it looks at the failure of international systems to provide the moral weight necessary to protect civilian rights.
Oh, and I talk about the Book of Judges.
Y'know. As a "treat".
https://onlysky.media/mclark/moral-war-a-contradiction-of-terms/
@MLClark Excellent opening recalling Judges.
Another excellent point about both sides thinking God is on their side. (God, if She exists, doesn't pick a side.)
I wish everyone had the ability to leave the past in the past, and decide to move forward with a blank slate. It won't happen. Too many powerful people have a vested interest in the status quo.
Thank you for writing the column. You cry out so we don't have to. 😢
Your seasoned comments last night are no less deeply felt, Stephen. You're just viewing all of this from a few more cycles down the line.
Thank you for sharing those insights from experience. It's so hard when we move through what-ifs that imagine better worlds we will not live to see. Born too late and too early, etc etc.
Hope you had a lovely chat with the sun this morning, if nothing else!