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Because we are grownups, and because the last Civil War cost so many lives and took so long to get
over. Parts of the country still aren't over that last civil war, and it has been over 100 years since it ended.
War doesn't really solve problems. It just creates new ones. And it wastes a lot of resources including human resources.