Dear rache,

I remember the anthology I did at uni as part of
my English Lit. studies. I chose anti-war poems.
I still remember the one by Stephen Vincent Benet:

Oh, where are you coming from, soldier, gaunt soldier,
With weapons beyond any reach of my mind,
With weapons so deadly the world must grow older
And die in its tracks, if it does not turn kind?

It's even more relevant today.

In war, each side fights for a different reason?

The aggressor is hellbent on theft.
He wants what isn't his.
The catalyst for his war can simply be greed.

The Aggressed fights to prevent that theft.
His life and livelihood come under threat.
So he is fighting for his survival, and to retain his possessions.

The incentive for war comes from which side of the line you are on?

Ipso Fatso said- "In war, each side fights for a different reason? The aggressor is hellbent on theft. He wants what isn't his.
The catalyst for his war can simply be greed. The Aggressed fights to prevent that theft. His life and livelihood come under threat. So he is fighting for his survival, and to retain his possessions. The incentive for war comes from which side of the line you are on?"

Answer- I think Ipso Fatso is assuming that the aggressor and the aggressed can't be the same in/ out group. That both sides might be the aggressor. But at least he recognises perspective.

They used to say "it takes two to tango"- this seems to have been swept under the carpet as backward old thinking by those that have set themselves up as the star chamber of morals.

" Two men looked out from prison bars.
One saw the mud, the other saw stars."

(Dale Carnegie).

Foxy,
One crapped himself & the other was on drugs !

individual,

We're not talking about colonial times or the
Northern Territory incarceration of our Indigenous
People.