Oddbean new post about login | logout But what if you are forced to do so, and if you are divorced, and your children wouldn't be allowed to escape with you?
This is all guesswork, but if you go to war, you will surely lose everything, including your life, and even more so with the new type of drone warfare where humans are just pieces of meat. If you already know that you will go to war and you will surely lose your life, when neither politicians nor their children will go to war, why not use all the strength you have left to avoid going to war?