A Code to Live By

A news analysis recently included an inappropriate metaphor. The “analyzer” wondered if in future we would be able to “shelter under the USA's nuclear umbrella.” The pressure is on to raise Canada's defence capability, to buy jet fighters, submarines, warships and to recruit more young people to join the military, and possibly to have our own “nuclear umbrella” to make us safe?? It's hardly appropriate for us to call President Trump “stupid” when his blinkered megalomania is simply a logical product of our collective lack of intelligent thinking about war and peace, our screwed up "codes to live by." I live in a multi-unit condo. How can I be sure that one of my fellow residents won't rob me or kill me in my bed? Maybe if I had a gun, I'd be safer from such an eventuality. But if others found out that I had a gun, wouldn't they feel that they ought to have one too? Probably I should then add an assault rifle, just in ...