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Originally Posted by aceventura3
If I believed that by laying down our arms, all the violence would stop, one death would be too many. However, I do not believe if we layed down our arms the violence would stop. I also think we would be targets of violence no matter what we do at this point. There is too much history that has caused too much hatred for fighting parties (including the US) to forgive and forget. We are dealing with a fundamental flaw in human nature, I can not think of anything on this earth presently that will stop the cycle of violence. Based on that I would rather be the wolf, not the lamb.
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But as you said, it doesn't matter which we are, we're a target either way. So why put our soldiers in harm's way? If we're really dealing with a rock rolling downhill that's too big for us to stop, to stick an analogy on what you've said here, then why keep throwing ourselves in front of it? I don't agree that that's the case, by the way, but I'm willing to challenge your logic from inside your logic.
Inside that context, "I'd rather be the wolf" translates to "I want to take as many other people out as I can before I go." Which is a valid worldview, I suppose. Unenlightened, but valid.