(07-18-2023, 01:06 AM)Grace Wrote: ...
So yes... This country is a powder keg and the fuse is to the powder just about. It will blow - it's human nature.
We don't have to join the fray, however... It's always a choice.
We are sitting at the crossroad and people are praying for another way - a real and lasting resolution to the mess we now find ourselves in that doesn't involve seeing our children die.
Yes, joining a war is always a choice, but some times, it's Hobb's Choice. When it reaches your door, you have a choice to fight or die, but the choice is still there. No one in their right mind goes looking for a war - some do, but they aren't in their right mind - but some times, the war comes looking for you, and forces to to make that Hobb's Choice.
It would be great if there were another way, but there are people in this world that just can not let a thing be. They have to poke and prod and tease at it until it's everyone else hurting, just to keep themselves happy and think they are above it all. They aren't. It will eventually come to them, too, and then THEY have that Hobb's Choice to make themselves that they forced on everyone else to make.
All because they just couldn't let a thing alone, and live and let live.
Once it gets rolling, there is no telling when or where it will end. It takes on a life of it's own, and does not care in the least what any of the rest of us think - not even the ones that start it.
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