Among this chaos, I think we can all take little consolation in an event that happened precisely a century and 2 days ago.
The Christmas Truce of 1914, on the Western Front.
That's real courage. The courage to rise above all the evils of war, delusions of nationalism and following orders, if just for a moment. I wonder how they felt going back to following orders and killing each other after that.
The truce tells us what leads to world peace in the short run - principled disobedience, and obedience to virtue.
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