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Aldous Huxley

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Aldous Huxley

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War is horrifying because ordinary people, not abstract forces, are forced to kill or be killed. These individuals suffer due to political conflicts that they did not personally create or choose to fight.

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