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May 22, 2011 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux

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1915 The First Casualty of War (audio to a video)

Only the dead have seen the end of war -- Plato. Did millions really die to set us free? From Freedomain Radio - http://www.freedomainradio.com

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	The End The End The End The End The End The End The End So, what is so often said about the soldiers of the 20th century, in particular, and the soldiers who are fighting now in the 21st century, is that they fought to make us free.
	Which is a wonderful sentiment, and one which should evoke tremendous gratitude, if, in fact, there was a shred of truth in that statement.
	but it's not true.
	I mean, it's not even close to true.
	It's frankly the exact opposite of truth.
	And there's this myth that is around, that people believe that the way to honor the deaths of so many millions of people, that the way to honor this It's to say that we achieved some tangible positive good out of their deaths.
	That's how we are supposed to honor their deaths.
	We can try and rescue some positive and forward momentum of human progress and human virtue from these hundreds of millions of deaths and we don't do it by pretending That they died to set us free because we are less free, far less free now than we were before these slaughterers began.
	They did not die, these people did not die to set us free.
	They did not die fighting any enemy other than the ones that the previous deaths had created.
	So the first, the beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names.
	Soldiers are paid killers.
	And I say this with a great degree of sympathy to young men and women who are suffered into a life of evil through propaganda and the labeling of heroic to a man in costume who kills for money.
	And the lie that honor is accepting ordered killings For money and prestige and pensions.
	We create the possibility of moral choice by communicating the truth about ethics to people.
	That, to me, is where real heroism and real respect for the dead lies.
	Real respect for the dead lies in exhuming the corpses and hearing what they would say if they could speak now.
	And they would say, If any ask us why we died, tell us because our fathers lied.
	Tell us because we were told that charging up a hill and slaughtering our fellow man was heroic and noble and honorable.
	But these hundreds of millions of ghosts who circled the world in agony, remorse, will not be released from our collective unconscious until we lay the truth of their murders on the table and look at the horror that is the lie that murder for money can be moral that murder for prestige can be moral These poor young men and women,
	propagandized into an undead ethical status, lied to about what is noble and virtuous and courageous and honorable and decent and good.
	To the point where they're rolling hand grenades into children's rooms.
	Under the illusion that that is going to make the world a better place.
	The world is a place where they are.
	We have to stare this in the face.
	If we want to remember why these people died, they did not die to set us free.
	They did not die to make the world a better place.
	They died because we are ruled by sociopaths.
	The only thing that can create a better world is the truth, is virtue, is the honor and courage of standing up to the genocidal lies of mankind and calling them lies, ultimate corruptions. ultimate corruptions.
	The traumas and the horrors of this century of Staggering bloodshed after the brief respite of the 19th century.
	This addiction to blood and the idea that if we pour more bodies into the whole of the mass graves of the 20th century, if we pour more bodies and more blood, we can build some sort of cathedral to a better place, but it doesn't happen.
	It doesn't happen. We can throw as many young men and women as we want into this pit of slaughter.
	It will never be full.
	It will never do anything other than sink and recede further into the depths of hell.
	We can't...
	We can't build a better world on bodies.
	We can't build peace on blood.
	If we don't look back and see the army of the dead of the 20th century that is calling out for us to see that they died to enslave us, that whenever there was a war, the government grew and grew,
	and that we are still so addicted to this lie, this fantasy that we honor the dead by adding to their number, What we need to do is remember that these bodies bury us.
	This ocean of blood that we create through the fantasy that violence brings virtue drowns us, drowns our children, drowns our future, drowns the world.

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