To download RealPlayer for free click here . This commentary was produced by Sharon Basco. TEXT War is an inherently contradictory enterprise. The men who fought for these ideals subsequently imperiled their lives, forfeited their liberty to the dictates of military service, and abandoned the pursuit of happiness to the grim necessities of combat. Clearly, the only reasonable justification for war is the hope of eventual peace.
Sane combatants fight for an end to fighting.
So, too, was the war on murder. Killing your fellow citizen has been illegal since biblical times, yet people still kill each other with discouraging regularity. Every major police department has a homicide section whose sole purpose is to investigate these events at considerable expense to the public coffers. Despite our failure to eliminate mayhem, nobody suggests that we should legalize murder. That theorem states that people tend to do things that feel good.