Tough questions

• Should the American colonies south of the St. Lawrence River not have rebelled against mother England in 1775? Who benefitted? Just some New England merchants getting a tax break? Were the rebels like Mr. Zelensky in Ukraine today: troublemakers for no good end? What improvement if any whould have accrued to me as a person who wanted to be an intellectual but did not have any money, and who does not want to die for anybody's flag? Was the game worth the candle, since the people in Canada today do not seem to be bad off.?

• Should the French have won the French and Indian wars?

• Should the Union have let the Southern state just go? Why not the Northern states fight only if Southern armies tried to attack northern territory. Provide safe haven for fugitive slaves but not try to stir up anti-slavery trouble in the South. How much were the abolitionists a bunch of Do Gooder busybodies?

• Let's grant that a war comes along that really needs to be fought. Adlof Hitler in World War II seems the best candidate, certainly not fighting on either side in World War I which was juat another day in the office for a bunch of potlatch generals an armaments manufacturers. Let us suppose that children were not childreared as bellicose herd animals where the males play varsity football and the females give them sex for wining. A society in which each person was an individual who always kept social distane even without an epidemic and never got hormonally psyched up about any team or other social custom. If then a war came along where they ahd no choice but to fight the enemy, would the persons submit to drill sergeants and barracks life and all the other humiliations and disrespect "our boys" take a licking and just keep on ticking, e.g., to take Mount Suribachi? Would they submit to being warm squirming bodies to cover the beach with a statistically optimum number of corpses in a D-Day landing? What would they do? What would happen if a hoard of machos with buzz cuts threatened to overwelm their society of individuals with the purpose of sending all of them to forced labor camps run by sadists where they woulld all be used for vivesection experiments without anesthetics? In other words, a war in which being "defeated" by " the enemy" really would make a big difference in my life, and not just chenge who extracted surplus value out of me or no longer be free to have annual vacations in Disneyland or to have single a family tract house lawn to mow in suburbia.

• Could society survive if every person was an individual who would not put up with being treated like a student in school or an employee in an office? If yes, what would such a society look like? Presume that there is no more automation available than in late 20th century USA.

• Related to the immediately preceding question: Could there be a conflict-free society? Obviously such things as athletic and economic competition could be eliminated. But what about if two persons lusted for the same long term sex partner and none of them were into promiscuity?