“I wish I could tell young people today how naïve they are,” Mr. Gates said. “We were like that, too, young and naïve. We truly believed that by building that b

“I wish I could tell young people today how naïve they are,” Mr. Gates said. “We were like that, too, young and naïve. We truly believed that by building that bomb there’d never be another war.” All of you out there who think that any hostile action can resolve any other hostile action would be well served by ruminating on that statement for the rest of your lives. (preferably to the extent that you don't get around to participating in any hostile actions). Hostility, almost by definition, is only successfully defeated by tolerance. This will involve sacrifice, and a huge measure of "being the better human". Just remember that "being the better human" only puts you into comparison with the leaders of any conflict. The general population of conflict ridden areas should, like all humans, be treated as innocent until proven guilty. I know these sound like trite, overly simplistic conclusions, but that's only because we're somewhat "programmed" by evolution to be hostile, and non-hostile solutions have only been consciously recognized as a viable option fairly recently in human history.