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 %COMPARE NET RETURNS INVESTMENTS GAINS BOTTOM LINE 070621
%PARENTS TEACHERS PROFESSOR PEACE INSTITUTE PREPARE 070621
  %BASIC MILITARY TRAIN PREPARE KILLING FIELDS EVIL 070621
 %MYTH REDEMPTIVE VIOLENCE COERCION ATTACKS THREATS 070621

    We  will  do well to engage in research and  open  and
honest  dialogue about the comparative Net-Returns  gained
from the following kinds of investments may  by humans ---
averaged over all people who make such investments and all
people who benefit-from and/or are victims-of the efforts.

 1.  Parents teaching children how to be peacemakers.
 2.  School teachers teaching how to be peacemakers.
 3.  Professors teaching students to be peacemakers.
 4.  Peace-Institutes researching how to be peacemakers.
 5.  Legislators studying how best to be peacemakers.
 6.  Governmental Executives learning to be peacemakers.
 7.  The above participating actively daily peacemaking.

 1.  Parents going through basic training in killing.
 2.  School teachers taking basic training in killing.
 3.  Professors going into basic training in killing.
 4.  Peace-Protestors taking basic training in killing.
 5.  Legislators going into basic training in killing.
 6.  Governmental Executives going into killing fields.
 7.  The above participating actively in killing fields.

    In  making the above assessments care will need to  be
taken to include all of the costs of wars:

 1.  Resources,  energy,  raw materials and wages involved
in the total war efforts on the domestic front.

 2.  Costs to purchase goods and services for war  efforts
from other nations.

 3.  Long-term costs of medical care for injured survivors
of all war efforts.

 4.  Lost  creativity and work by participants in all  war
efforts  due to physical,   chemical,   nuclear-radiation,
psychological,  spiritual,  and the full range of diseases
flowing from all war efforts.

 5.  Losses  due to the  polarizations,   contentiousness,
conflicts, battles and political conflicts associated with
entering, carrying out, and concluding all war efforts.

 6.  Unrecognized    disintegrations    of   people    and
communities  due  to  all of the above;  perhaps  as  some
percentage of the tallied net costs and benefits.

    We  will do well to compare the above net results with
other likely net results were we to follow the guidance of
contrasting paradigms for resolving our conflicts.

     Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom.

                         (c) 2007 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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