Hmmm. I'm going to re-phrase that last sentence.

It's the path of least love, least awareness...and MOST resistance. Because, like any form of resistance, it produces friction, heat, conflict, and warfare of various sorts.

We have things that unite us and things that divide us. We have things in common and things that are not in common. The former outnumber the latter by a wide margin...yet most people look not to what unites them with others, but to what is different in others, and they fight about it. That's the path of war, and it misses the point of life entirely, because what we have in common vastly outweighs the things that divide us.

If Sunnis and Shiites could see this, for instance, their religious quarrel would be ended. If Catholics and Protestants could have seen it, they could have saved themselves hundreds of years of bloody warfare. If Americans and Russians could have seen it, they could have saved themselves trillions of dollars of unnecessary confrontation. If people on this forum could see it, they be a lot kinder to each other.