Originally Posted by Mr. Charlie

That's just scenery. I mean life. It's perfect. Yes, it's fragile and fleeting, and pain and loss are inevitable. But those same things make it precious. The freedom to kill is the freedom to love. Everybody wants a world where 'bad' things don't happen, not realising the 'good' depends on the 'bad' and vice versa.

The world is not imperfect. Life is not imperfect. Imperfection is in our knowledge and consciousness, in our understanding.
What a beautiful world when you know how to love it!

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.