The Moral Equivalent of War

We live in a time where most Americans don't experience war, so they don't have this chance to be great. So you're returning to more luck in a sense. But we can engineer circumstances in which people are pushed to the same kind of self-sacrifice and heroism that they might be pushed to in war. We can artificially engender it and we can do it in a way that does not result in the horrible bloodshed and loss and waste of war but results in something positive.

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