On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:12:32AM -0600, Ron Seybold wrote:
> I pray for a day when humankind can resolve differences without the
> massive death from war.

As a volunteer paramedic for 17 years, I prayed for the day when we would no
longer be needed to scrape drunks off the road at 3 AM, or pound on
someone's grandfather's chest on Christmas Eve in a vain attempt to revive
him despite the massive heart attack he'd suffered, or look a mother in the
eye and tell her that her worst nightmare had come to pass and her baby was
irretrievably dead, or any one of a zillion other things.

We will always need emergency medical services.

We will always have wars.

For many of the same reasons: people are just too stupid, or too stubborn,
or too in denial, or for whatever reason simply don't care.

World peace requires something we will never have: unanimous consent of the
entire human race. Until then, we'll always be susceptible to leaders who
demagogue their followers into believing that they can achieve their goals
with organized violence.

Yes, peace is desirable. It is, however, fundamentally impossible.

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