To be safe. It may be more difficult for people to swallow initially (which explains why no administration has or will act that way, gotta maintain that power n

To be safe. It may be more difficult for people to swallow initially (which explains why no administration has or will act that way, gotta maintain that power now), but I think we would all be better off if society were pushing us towards logic-based policy rather than pandering to irrational emotions. We're sociopolitically treading water (or worse, slowly drowning) by continuing that. Why do we still go to war? Sending our own people to die senselessly by the thousands, for what again? It's 2013 and America is still spending vast sums of money on weapons and war. Utterly ridiculous. But that is what people have done since the dawn of civilization, and despite all of our knowledge and "enlightenment," we're still catering to these primal animal urges. The nihilist in me says "fuck it, if that's what they want, that's what they get," but the idealist weeps at the thought of the existence we could have built...