Metaphor and War:

This packet is definitely... interesting. It may be a bit too democratic for my liking, but it's composed of politics, therefore it can't be completely unbiased. Anyway, I think the author was really treading in some deep water with some of his metaphors. Most of them are stretching the truth on both sides of the argument, and I'm just not sure how I feel about that. He conceptualizes people as states, and people are really much more complex than that. People are the reason for this packet in the first place, therefore, they should be more important and widely recognized than states. I don't know why the packet didn't appeal to me exactly, but he seemed to think that war was ultimately the wrong answer, when sometimes war is necessary. He likes to define things as units of possible measurement, when I just don't agree with that. Morally, people need to be weighted more than monetary benefits. This passage, just doesn't do it for me.