Wouldn't it be easier if it was easier? (A reflection)

 

                There is a sad true that we all learn as we grow adults, that some wars are necessary. Defense wars. The world war ii is the most agreeable example, altough there are others. What should be the criterion? In the end, it’s about protecting innocents, I guess.

                But nowadays, who wants to think straight about History? Let’s be real: who have time for thinking at all? There seems to be an easier way to “pick a side”: you wait a little and then count the losses. Whoever has more losses in this frame of time – the current conflict – is the victim, therefore, is the good side.

                But then comes another true, that is not only sad, but in fact horrible: Evil leaders know of this tendency of ours too. So, the questions: First, if you increased your own losses, would it make it easier for you to get the support of the fast heroes?  Second, would someone be so evil as to do that?

                I wished nobody would be that evil, but I heard a leader saying publicly: “We are a people of martyrs, we are proud when our people die, it is a glory to die for the cause”.  So, wouldn’t it be a glory for a child to die protecting a leader? Or, good God, even a soldier? After all, it’s all “the cause”.

                So, wouldn’t it be terrible to have to fight against a guy like that? You may say, “man, you have to wait, these people used as shields deserve consideration”. Right, I see your point, I feel it like a clamp in my heart, but, how much would you wait? How long could you wait? How much violence would you accept from that guy, against your children? Hard, isn’t it?

                Off course you have to be as ethical as you possibly can, at any given time. But for people forced into war by Horror and Danger, it’s one day at a time, I guess. So, instead of asking people the impossible (like asking things that are equivalent to asking a mother to give up her son)  wouldn’t it be better if everybody, from the beginning, always condemned that tactic of human sacrifice? Condemning every little seed of it as soon as it sprouted?

                Not just with words, but standing firmly against that kind of “leadership”, and all their supporters, all the leaders who even have money enough to build an oasis for that children, but prefer causing war from a safe distance?

                Wouldn’t it be better if we didn’t have “waited a little”, as I said in the beginning, but had clearly condemned evil as soon as we spot it, even if we had to go against someone who is “going up” in the international games? Wich, clearly, didn’t happen. Wouldn’t that be “our part” to do, as outsiders?

                So the fast heroes can march, yes, for interests that “coincide” with those of the worst leaders in the World (not that we like him, of course). Their intellectual credentials may be falling like a castle of cards, but they still have something going on for them: petroil & slavery money flowing to the “offices” and the most perverse use of mathematics that mankind ever conceived.