For escape from being lonely and unloved, some go to war. Really? So believed Aristotle:
Aristotle said that only two living entities are capable of complete solitude and complete separateness: God and beast. Because of this the most acute form of suffering for human beings is loneliness. The isolated individual can never by adequately human. And many of war’s most fervent adherents are those atomized individuals who, before the war came, were profoundly alone and unloved. They found fulfilment in war, perhaps because it was the closest they came to love. (Quoted from War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, by Chris Hedges. New York: Public Affairs. 2002. p.161.)
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