War is perhaps humanity's favorite past time. And we are very good at it.
Through out history we have gone to war over silly things. Menelaus went to war because Helen fell in love with Paris.
El Salvador went to war with Honduras over a football game.
Spain went to war with Peru in 1864 over bird s.hit.
Britain and the Ashanti Empire went to war over a really nice chair.
France and Sicily went to war in 1282 because some drunk guy couldn't keep his hands to himself.
We prefer to use our armies rather then our words. But at the end of war we do what we should have done from the beginning, which is sit down and talk.
To quote the Doctor:
Quote:When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die. You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until everybody does what they're always going to have to do from the very beginning -- sit down and talk! Listen to me, listen. I just -- I just want you to think. Do you know what thinking is? It's just a fancy word for changing your mind.
Best to keep such things in mind...
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