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Fighting

Are we made for war or peace?

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Jason Shen about 3 years ago

So many wonderful and quotable segments of this piece. Thank you for your eloquence and courage Anna. As a first born with a very large gap to my younger sister, I was fascinated and intrigued by this passage.

> Most people first encounter love and war in the form of a sibling, whether they were already there when they were born, meeting them in shock, wonder, and jealousy, or would be born after them, eliciting that same response. Two siblings are the original zero sum game, competing for what indeed is a scarce resource, the 24 hours of the mother, in luckier cases alleviated by fathers’ and grandparents’ contribution. Two-child households don’t have the Pentecostal or Hegelian triad, no third party can really dissolve and to absolve. A lot of clashes feel like life and death. Indeed, at some point they were.