If We Justify War, It Is Because

Most People Are Shaped To The Form Of Their Culture Because Of The Enormous Malleability Of Their Original Endowment. They Are Plastic To The Moulding Force Of The Society Into Which They Are Born. It Does Not Matter Whether, With The Northwest Coast, It Requires Delusions Of Self-reference, Or With Our Own Civilization The Amassing Of Possessions. In Any Case The Great Mass Of Individuals Take Quite Readily The Form That Is Presented To Them.

The Crucial Differences Which Distinguish Human Societies And Human Beings Are Not Biological. They Are Cultural.

The Tough-minded ... Respect Difference. Their Goal Is A World Made Safe For Differences, Where The United States May Be American To The Hilt Without Threatening The Peace Of The World, And France May Be France, And Japan May Be Japan On The Same Conditions.

The Prime Lesson The Social Sciences Can Learn From The Natural Sciences Is Just This: That It Is Necessary To Press On To Find The Positive Conditions Under Which Desired Events Take Place, And That These Can Be Just As Scientifically Investigated As Can Instances Of Negative Correlation. This Problem Is Beyond Relativity.

... It Is A Commonplace That Men Like War. For Peace, In Our Society, With The Feeling We Have Then That It Is Feeble-minded To Strive Except For One's Own Private Profit, Is A Lonely Thing And A Hazardous Business. Over And Over Men Have Proved That They Prefer The Hazards Of War With All Its Suffering. It Has Its Compensations.