[DobDobDob (Ron)]

So Alex, the next time I walk past several men beating and kicking one poor wretch, I must just keep walking because it is not my war? Not my problem?

As we evolve our species we are naturally drawn to protect the downtrodden, we celebrate our heroes who place the needs of others ahead of their own.

It is just not in our nature to turn our backs on our brothers in need.

In this sense, the war that we would participate in is a noble cause. The problem is sorting out the reality of each situation from the rhetoric.

A blanket statement (law) that we must not fight unless we declare war (I assume you also include defend against war declared against us), simply can't be that simple. Alex do you honestly think all the good men in the world in last few hundred years haven't come to the same conclusion as you, yet that simplistic view is just untenable in the real world.

Yours is an idealistic view but sadly the reality is that bad things happen, every single day, and sometimes we are needed to make a stand (our fight or not) against the evils that exist. Once again, the problem is knowing the evil, for it can exist in many forms