Perhaps I wasn't clear.
If you decide to fight, what can I do about it? Really, I can do very little. If you want to fight, and claim it on my behalf, I haven't got much choice in the matter. I can say you're not fighting for me, but that would just be wrong. I could remove my sanction, but I never gave it. I could kill or maim you, but that would be hypocrisy of the highest order. I could pass laws preventing you from fighting, but pacifists are seldom the majority. So you fight, and my liberty doesn't extend far enough to stop you.
And, if someone wants to fight you (which is usually why you'd want to fight them, I'd wager), and I'm not really able to convince him either, well, what then? Not much more I can do. We live in an imperfect world. If you were looking for an explanation of the causes of conflict among living things in two pithy paragraphs, and are going to pick at me for not providing one, this isn't going to go anywhere fast. I merely stated a truth, that in war (for whatever reasons), both (or all) sides want each other dead (or at least highly incapacitated).
If someone refuses to fight, then lauds your victorious return having done it for them, then they're a coward and a hypocrite. I don't like them, although I suspect you dislike them more. But if someone didn't want you (or anyone) to fight in the first place, and you went ahead and did it anyway, I can't see what they owe you.
Jester
If you decide to fight, what can I do about it? Really, I can do very little. If you want to fight, and claim it on my behalf, I haven't got much choice in the matter. I can say you're not fighting for me, but that would just be wrong. I could remove my sanction, but I never gave it. I could kill or maim you, but that would be hypocrisy of the highest order. I could pass laws preventing you from fighting, but pacifists are seldom the majority. So you fight, and my liberty doesn't extend far enough to stop you.
And, if someone wants to fight you (which is usually why you'd want to fight them, I'd wager), and I'm not really able to convince him either, well, what then? Not much more I can do. We live in an imperfect world. If you were looking for an explanation of the causes of conflict among living things in two pithy paragraphs, and are going to pick at me for not providing one, this isn't going to go anywhere fast. I merely stated a truth, that in war (for whatever reasons), both (or all) sides want each other dead (or at least highly incapacitated).
If someone refuses to fight, then lauds your victorious return having done it for them, then they're a coward and a hypocrite. I don't like them, although I suspect you dislike them more. But if someone didn't want you (or anyone) to fight in the first place, and you went ahead and did it anyway, I can't see what they owe you.
Jester