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Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Should we be fighting disease rather than fighting wars

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For the purpose of this essay I will use the article "WE" to refer to we, the people, of this planet: Earth. As both a military veteran and someone who has, and continues to study the nature of what exactly "health" is (and also the nature, structure, functioning and origins of conflict), allow me to suggest that we not conceptualize our approach to analyzing and treating disease, with war.  Let me put it another way. War and Disease are both only symptoms - the end products of grand meta diseases present within domestic and international society. Why are wars fought? Each historic ex...

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