It’s naive to think there could ever be peace, and trying to achieve peace amongst all is not only futile but also unnatural. In the animal kingdom, it is conflict and violence that is the ultimate settlement of dispute. We are, after all, animals.
With that being said, what if the United States had mandatory military service requirements. ? I think if I HAD to go to war I would meet that challenge. Keep in mind I’m not saying that I would ever want to go to war, but if I had no choice I think I could take something positive from the experience. I don’t have the slightest idea of what it would be like, and I’m not trying to pretend to minimize the seriousness of what I would be stepping into… but I believe in the most extreme of circumstances, where life is fragile, that we as humans have the ability to shine. Not in the war hero sense, but through what could be learned by putting oneself to the limit. There’s something redeeming in the thought that if I had no other alternative, I could still survive. If I couldn’t then I would know. Because until that point there would have always been a safety net.