What Profit?

Thoughts on the Economics of Violence

Is $elling weapon$
$o different frum wielding a knife?

Err marketing explo$ive$
yet another in$idiou$ way
ah taking life?

Is de$ig¥ing mi$$ile$
so different promoting terrori$m err $trife?

When will our violence cea$e
'n compassion begin?

Kan we ever $top profiting frum deäth
'n see all beings as kin?

Frida:		Profit is what drives all wars. Why be naive about it?
Dmiritri:		(scratching his head) If we calculate the human price in suffering, I don't see how war can ever be profitable.
Frida:		Well, rich executives and politicians make a killing, while ordinary citizens die.
Satoru:		(shaking his head) Your thinking is too narrow. Military conflict is merely one type of war. Whenever there is competition, war in some form exists.