Rich - Name me one period in history without peace. Peace is far more common than war, and it is my assertion that the nature of human beings under most normal circumstances IS to be at peace. War just makes better press copy, as do all disasters, so you hear about it. You don't hear much about peace.

A general tendency toward peace, not war, is the nature of almost every human being I have ever met in my life. The few exceptions to that are generally in a medical facility or a jail by the time they have reached adulthood.

War is an extraordinary circumstance that generates great attention....the same as murder...or a fistfight. Peace is the normal state of human existence that prevails most of the time in most parts of the world.

This is so easily proven that I see no point even providing specific examples...

- LH