Somewhere I have a button...

[jducoeur]

... that says something like:

var x = 100;
do {
   x = x + 1;
} until (x == 0);

Substitute "death" for "x", and you've got a painfully concise summary of the Middle Eastern situation...

Comments

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, and expecting different results. :-)

[mentalgiant.livejournal.com]

One could argue the same about doing nothing and expecting different results.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Not for the traditional meaning of "results", eh?

[mentalgiant.livejournal.com]

What do you mean?

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

A result has a cause, a progenitor, an action which forced it to arise.

There is no "result" from doing nothing - anything which follows, occurs because of some other action or impluse. (I am ignoring entropy - although one might argue that it, too, is a force of some kind arising spontaneously. But that leads to a very long philosophical debate which would never detract from my point.)

[mentalgiant.livejournal.com]

All I am saying is that because man is fundamentally flawed, there will always be war.