Deep

I was having some deep thoughts so I decided that I should write them down. They all center around conflict and/or war. I was just thinking about why individuals fight, not whole countries but individuals. What I mean is what is the motivation of a soldier to fight. Some people say that they are fighting for their countries. That is ridiculous though. We are all part of the human race and we are all in a way brothers and sisters. We all share a common bond of humanity. How do we find a way to rationalize the killing of the people who are in essence, exactly the same as us. They have families, they go on vacations, they take group pictures, they watch reality TV shows. How the hell do we rationalize the killing of them. The only way I can think of is that we take the individual out of the picture and focus on the nations which have committed "such atrocities" that we cannot help but fight them. We must turn away our attention from those who are most like us(the foot soldiers) and look towards those who are the most inhuman(the leaders of those soldiers). Or, we must look even farther away from the human race to the ideals of the people we are fighting against. So now what are we really fighting, ideas!! We are fighting dreams, nothing more, nothing less. I am not saying that there is not a time for war. I am simply saying that the motivations are wrong. We, as humans who are basically good, cannot fight to kill another man. That is, unless you are insane. We fight for broader reasons that are not necessarily right. That is why we must always be careful before we attempt any type of aggression. I know I probably won't get any comments on this but I just had to throw it out there. I t was bugging me.