Life without war is impossible either in nature or in grace. The basis of physical, mental, moral, and spiritual life is antagonism. This I believe is the open fact of life.

Health is the balance between physical life and external nature, and it is maintained only by sufficient vitality on the inside against things on the outside.

Everything outside my physical life is designed to prematurely end my life. Things which keep me going when I am alive, disintegrate me when I am dead. If I have enough fighting power, I produce the balance of health. The same is true of the mental life. If I want to maintain a vigorous mental life, I have to fight, and in that way the mental balance called thought is produced.

Morally it is the same. Everything that does not partake of the nature of virtue is the enemy of virtue in me, and it depends on what moral calibre I have whether I overcome and produce virtue by conformity of my life and conduct to moral and ethical principles; uprightness; rectitude.

Immediately I fight, I am moral in that particular struggle. No man is virtuous because he cannot help it; virtue is acquired.

I base these comments on the disintegration of moral structure, parenting practices, cultural tolerance and the growth of antagonism changing population discernment.