What Is Unforgivable in War?

Dod people need to be convinced that war is unhealthy for children and other living things, he says. As early as the fifteenth century, erasmus argued that the advantages derived from peace diffuse themselves far and wide; while in war, if anything turns out happily, the advantage redounds only to a few. Dod: Whatever is unfortunate in war is severely so indeed. And whatever, on the contrary, is called good fortune is a savage and cruel good fortune, an ungenerous happiness deriving its existence from another's woe.