An artist or writer creates something that didn't exist before and births it into the world. A war-maker huddles in the opposite corner of the room destroying creations with some usually ill-defined ulterior motives. Art, buildings, workplaces, arms and infrastructure, dolls and livestock, children and friends and relatives, all of it taken away in a huge destructive exhalation of breath. This provides a level of grim satisfaction to the aggressor imagining that strategic progressive toward a goal is being achieved. Those I love, or that you love. sometimes even act as apologists for this behaviour, if the framing that's presented to them —usually disingenuously — is just right. It's a tragedy. [Not that there is never a justification for war. But I think it should be conducted roughly the same way people describe abortion as a necessary evil - it should be "rare, safe, and legal".] What accounts for these different types of people? What elements of the universe g...
