Good, Lethality and What Can’t be Unknown

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  • Good, Lethality and What Can’t be Unknown

    What we think and how we think matters. What we think and document matters even more for what we think and document has power. That power separated from you, the author, has its own destiny engaging beyond your private universe… Continue reading

  • Good and When Investigation Goes Nuclear

    The tragic problem with nuclear weapons has been up until recently it has been mutually understood that a nuclear war was a lose-lose response assuring many many civilians would die and no one would win. The Epstein investigation went public… Continue reading

  • Good, Decapitation’s Effects, and Guillotine Diplomacy

    Decapitation for the human species is 100% fatal.  The numbers are only slightly better for decapitated nations.  The French Revolution’s Reign of Terror demonstrated through the daily use of the guillotine if you decapitate a human being there is zero… Continue reading

  • Good, Dancing Presidents, and Calibrating the Value of a Human Life

    When this reader sees bombs exploding and flames leaping across buildings and habitat for some reason I see no reason to celebrate.  “Not one American life lost” is presented as the ‘good news’, but later in the news story in… Continue reading

  • Good, War Games, and Power Addiction

    There have always been troubled human beings in power for the simple reason power for the individual seems an easier consoling alternative to the hard difficult work of returning to health. What history can’t teach us is how important it… Continue reading

  • Good, Peace, Private Interest, Public Loss and Ignorance

    In reading the history leading up to the second World War it seemed the world had learned an important lesson in trying to negotiate a peace through the concession of other people’s land and culture to the aggressor.  If you… Continue reading

  • Good and the Broken Rules of War

    For anyone who wasn’t born before, during, or immediately after World War II, you may have forgotten or never been consciously aware of the crucial lessons taught by the conduct of WWII and its end.  If you are an American… Continue reading

  • Good, Empathy, Conscience and War

    This writer scans the news for actual facts and waits for the information to either contradict or confirm existing versions of what might be true. This morning of course, the headlines screamed WAR. And below that prospect were the news… Continue reading

  • Good and Why did four to five hundred People Need to Die in Gaza?

    How you might ask will this writer tie the deaths of four to five hundred people he doesn’t even know to the word good.  The answer is simple; he can’t. So I will write about something closer to penance.  I can’t… Continue reading

  • Good and Another Argument Against War

    We have seen large two strategies of war in our world  these recent years.  The first seems constructed around ‘stock pile strategy’  which is whoever runs out of weapons of destruction first loses.  Civilians be damned we shall keep the… Continue reading