I am drawn to the conclusion that the bestiality of the species is so close to the surface that any association with violence poses the risk of inducing psychosis as a survival mechanism. Maybe the only answer is absolute pacifism? Since any war seems to bring out this lizard-faced sadism? I would like to think I would be proof against it if I were immersed in the actualities of gut-wrenching, brain-slamming violence and destruction of my own species but I think in truth I would go as mad as any of them. What amazes me is that I know men who have survived the moist brutal treatment in war, whose lives have been spent getting their jaws rebuilt and so on, who think the engagement in Iraq is necessary and anyone wioth any brains could see that plainly. I tell ya, my mind boggles...


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