RE: Government is Slavery

I feel the same respect towards you.

Yes, you are talking about a very peculiar situation. Probably the most bizarre thing of all, that the weapons are silenced for a fixed period of time. It's so strange because actually, when you're in a fight to the death, you would think that a pause would promote the moment of awareness where you say to yourself "let's not do this". I've seen something similar in Asian martial arts films. Fighters ready to die, ready to take their enemy's life. And yet no lust for killing. The question this raises, if there is no real thirst for murder, why kill each other at all?
The only reason for continuing then seems to be that the fighters do not consider their lives to be the most important thing and death seems far less terrible to them than it is commonly feared. So, as you noted earlier, death is not the worst of evils. Those who let themselves be overcome by murderousness will, if they survive, have a hard time with it.

I am a woman, I can give life and I have given birth to it. Thus I would wish that men could face their enemies eye to eye, than that we should all suffer the banality of evil from the bondage of having before us not warriors, but righteous men.

Right, in difficult times, it is the pooling of different skills and looking out for each other. I come from a family of expellees and grew up with such stories of hard times. I had wondered at times if I would experience the same as my parents and grandparents, but I preferred not to live with that fear.

Thank you for this conversation. It gives me both, hope in that magic and also sorrows.