It’s just a shame. There is no way around it
10,000 years of society’s evolution and
we still have nothing better to do
with strong energetic young people
than have them kill each other.
With the same resources
the same people could be
building bridges to expand trade
or building dams to control floods
and produce energy
and create a better water source for communities
and farms
They could be educating other people,
exploring
and researching to gain a better understanding of our universe,
and making communities cleaner
and safer.
These are all things that help society advance both socially and economically far more
than training people and manufacturing things only to destroy other people and things.
No one country may be to blame,
but as society of humans on earth, we have failed.
Jim Ellis
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