Love is the desire to put oneself between the beloved and the danger.
Lust is the danger of putting one's desires before the other.
James 4:1-2
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
We fight for things we love.
We fight with things we lust after.
Most modern warfare is not about loving what is behind us but hating what is in front of us. It involve a lot of horsing around online and most of the time people merely get their feelings hurt, but sometimes it escalates out onto the streets of Minneapolis where someone dies.
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