War

War. If I think a while this might be the human's first "proffession".Not gathering, not farming or hunting but war. Something appealing about the bloodshed that kept the cavemen, then tribes, empires and countries revolving around this habbit. And for what?
I am no pretender and I can't pose into the light of a pacifist,driving a stereotypical Volkswagen van. War was and sometimes is necessary. My "beef" with it though,is the same as with any other thing or action that cannot be justified. Or even more, with wars that are carried on false pretenses. Any sort of violence is to be frown upon, but we also have to understand it. And it has come more and more difficult to see the real reason behind the curtains. Look what we have today: Wars in Middle East, "revolutions" in countries of North Africa, riots along the board everywhere. And it has to stop. Which can be hard when you are fed missconceptions. Hard when you get a jeans advert with a dude that walks up to a police shield wall on a street with riots,raising his hands with a messagge of "bring it on" and the advert voices it as "You are marvelous". One of the most common forms of war starting is instigation.
As people we lost respect as a whole. But when you provoke violence, when you have that need of "let's smash and destroy something" and you opt for something else than your own dishes and TV set, then expect violence.In this context there isn't "be a greater man".You should be held responsable for every of your actions and paid back in full and the same "currency" as the one you claimed.
I know there are countries and nations oppressed by somehow tyrant remains.And those will fight their way out of it, because after all, the rule of reciprocity applies there too. Be oppressive and you shall expect feedback ...and not the most kind of feedback.
But after all, just understand the reasons of war as you should try to understand everything that happens around you. Fire can only be fought with fire if you crave for efficiency. And if you open your eyes you'll see that what you've thought before was in fact no thinking.Was a veil of shadows sawn to cover the eyes of those who cannot be bothered with searching for the truth. Unfortunately that mass of people is still overwhelming. But as it will decrease you'll see that less and less violence will emerge. It will never be extinct. It should never be so. At least not until the last person that sustained it through ignorance has closed it's eyes for the last time.