Peace works extremely well. Take a look around. War is an anomaly and an exception to the general rule in this world.

Violence is also an anomaly and an exception to the general rule in life. You might not think that if you watch TV, where you can easily see several murders (or a hundred of them) in a single day, but live real life and you are quite unlikely to personally see even one murder in a year in most places. It's a very uncommon act.

So I submit that peace does indeed work, it works very well, and it works most of the time in most places, because most people are peaceful by nature as long as they're not in an absolute state of desperation. Even most soldiers would rather sit around the fire and have dinner than be in a battle. I realize there is the odd exception to that...and I do mean odd. Patton, for example, loved combat, and seemed almost unable to be happy for long without it. He was a rare person in that respect.

Peace is the normal state of affairs in this world. War is not.

And justice? Justice is established through equality. Meaning...everyone gets a reasonably equal start in life when they are born, with equal opportunities to apply themselves. How do we achieve that? Through gradual social change all over the world. It will take generations to do it. It's not a task for the impatient, that's for sure.

The impatient would much rather blow up skyscrapers and fight wars with each other. They want victory, not justice. When they secure the victory, they call it "justice"...over the bodies of those they have slain.

- LH