War is intolerable, but some conditions (slavery, tyranny) are even more intolerable.
War is an evil, but there is evil far worse.
War should be avoided, but not at *all* costs, only until the cost of not going to war becomes higher.
'Nuff said.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~~ Marcus Aurelius
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