re: #92 Gus 802

Don’t fear about expressing yourself. Go for it. You’re going to die in the long run anyway.

But that’s fine. That’s part and parcel of a democracy. We should debate the moral implications of death due to war. No one is going to kill us for doing so. As the wingnuts would say, “this is what our forefathers intended.” We need to have an open debate. The idea that “you’re either with us or against us” does not represent democracy. It represents anything but. This is the USA. This is what we do. We argue about controversial topics.

Home of the brave?

YES!!!! That is why I started reading the threads here and eventually joined, bought cook books and donated!

I loathe violence, but am not naive enough to not think that sometimes it is necessary. I know in my heart I am willing to forgo my loathing to protect my loved ones. I suspect most humans are the same. War is often portrayed as an extension of that instinct. Sometimes that instinct is manipulated by folks in power for their own purpose. Is that what we have today?