We have learned to recognize as the civilizing majesty of war precisely that which appears to the superficial observers to be brutality and inhumanity… Man must not only be ready to sacrifice his life, but also the natural deeply rooted feelings of the human soul; he must devote his whole ego for the furtherance of a great patriotic idea: that is the moral sublimity of war.
— Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke (1834-1896), German historian, political writer
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And so, we relinquish the majesty of the living to the triviality of the machismo. My death or that of your wife, sibling, child is somehow subjugate to the glory?
German philosophy rules, dude.