War is an implacable beauty. The fact that humans have the ability level everything in a 6 mile radius with an object that could be transported in a U-Haul truck, astonishes me. The inexplicable enormity of the destruction that a nuclear bomb is capable leaves anyone who is lucky enough to witness it, in awe. A napalm bomb is just the same. Once dropped, it causes what looks to be a carpet of red and orange engulfing anything in range in a gorgeous spectacle of what looks like smoke and fire engaging in a bare knuckle brawl.
These are the beautiful parts of war. What makes their beauty implacable, is the pure agony and suffering it causes humans. If you were to listen to screams of men, women, and children slowly burning to death under that beautiful carpet of flame, it would shake you to your soul. This is what makes the beauty of war implacable. Devices that cause this severity of suffering, or that can decimate entire populations of innocent humans, have no place in our society, no matter how beautiful they are.
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