War Is Not a Game
“How come we play war and not peace?” --Hobbes
Bill Watterson, the comic-strip artist behind Calvin and Hobbes, has made a good point. We have wars because that is the environment we have grown up in. It is the first way we learn to solve problems. When we are kids, we play war; our heroes are GI Joe, Rambo and guns.
How could anyone have grown up and not have had the idea of war stained deep into his or her brain?
I can understand why kids play war but not why mature, wise, ignorant adults still play the same game.
ERIC JENSSEN
Laguna Niguel
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