{"id":3040,"date":"2015-10-19T21:16:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T21:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fenello.com\/blog\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2015-10-19T21:16:11","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T21:16:11","slug":"the-us-military-and-the-myth-that-humanity-is-predisposed-to-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/tranzitioning\/?p=3040","title":{"rendered":"The US Military and the Myth That Humanity Is Predisposed to Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/32768-the-us-military-and-the-myth-that-humanity-is-predisposed-to-violence','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly\\&quot; style=\\&quot;\\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/images\/images_2015_09\/2015_0913ls.jpg\\&quot; class=\\&quot;thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\&quot; \/&gt;&lt;a class=\\'embedly-title\\' target=\\'_blank\\' href=\\'http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/32768-the-us-military-and-the-myth-that-humanity-is-predisposed-to-violence\\'&gt;The US Military and the Myth That Humanity Is Predisposed to Violence&lt;\/a&gt;We have this tragic misperception that humanity is predisposed to violence. The truth is that humanity is predisposed to peace. The default position for humanity is that of conscientious objector to war and violence. In our work at the Center on Conscience &amp; War, this is proven to us daily, through our individual conscientious objectors.&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly-clear\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;span class=\\&quot;embedly-powered\\&quot; style=\\&quot;float:right;display:block\\&quot;&gt;&lt;a target=\\&quot;_blank\\&quot; href=\\&quot;http:\/\/embed.ly\/code?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.truth-out.org%2Fopinion%2Fitem%2F32768-the-us-military-and-the-myth-that-humanity-is-predisposed-to-violence\\&quot; title=\\&quot;Powered by Embedly\\&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=\\&quot;http:\/\/static.embed.ly\/images\/logos\/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\&quot; alt=\\&quot;Embedly Powered\\&quot; \/&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;div class=\\&quot;media-attribution\\&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;via &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;a href=\\&quot;http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\\&quot; class=\\&quot;media-attribution-link\\&quot; target=\\&quot;_blank\\&quot;&gt;Truthout&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=\\&quot;embedly-clear\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;'}\">\n<div class=\"embedly\" style=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/images\/images_2015_09\/2015_0913ls.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" \/><a class='embedly-title' target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/32768-the-us-military-and-the-myth-that-humanity-is-predisposed-to-violence'>The US Military and the Myth That Humanity Is Predisposed to Violence<\/a>We have this tragic misperception that humanity is predisposed to violence. The truth is that humanity is predisposed to peace. The default position for humanity is that of conscientious objector to war and violence. In our work at the Center on Conscience &#038; War, this is proven to us daily, through our individual conscientious objectors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedly-clear\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/embed.ly\/code?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.truth-out.org%2Fopinion%2Fitem%2F32768-the-us-military-and-the-myth-that-humanity-is-predisposed-to-violence\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.embed.ly\/images\/logos\/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-attribution\"><span>via <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Truthout<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"embedly-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Military and the Myth That Humanity Is Predisposed to ViolenceWe have this tragic misperception that humanity is predisposed to violence. The truth is that humanity is predisposed to peace. The default position for humanity is that of conscientious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/tranzitioning\/?p=3040\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tranzitioning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3041,"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fenello.com\/oldnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}