I couldn’t possibly agree more.

It’s very easy to fetishise war when you have not seen the grim barbarity of true conflict.

It’s not like the movies, and we should not think of it as a desired or easily entered venture.

Street/Knife fights are another, I’ve seen them first hand and its impressive how mundane things or subtle movements are actually just lethal. There’s a saying that “The winner of a knife fight is the one who dies at the hospital” but even glib phrases like this are not enough to prepare you.

Kids would be less keen to join gangs if they saw the brutality before thinking they might get cool points.