Comments by "Incurable Romantic" (@incurableromantic4006) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

And every one of those lives was cut off just as they could have become fruitful. Boys who could have become men who married, raised families, started businesses, written novels, created arts, discovered new technologies, built new institutions. Etc etc. Over a 100 years later, it makes my heart ache to think how much potential the people's of Europe threw away in that war.
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@mariano98ify I literally just explained why it matters beyond one's own immediate family and friends.
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The sheer wastefulness of war in general and the two world wars in particular, just takes my breath away. Every time the high-command threw away a few hundred thousand young men in one of these futile efforts: they were depriving their nation of unfathomable amounts of energy, creativity, ingenuity and strength. Casually tossing away more human potential and promise that we can even contemplate. No wonder the European empires all collapsed within 40 years.
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