Enemies in Combat - Human World - Part I

In the movie by Woody Allen "Love and Death", the nerdy Jewish new recruit from a Russian village - Boris played by Woody Allen, marches with other soldiers towards the enemy in a simulated battlefield. As soon as he sees the enemy, he turns around and runs like hell in the opposite direction.

Sonja: Boris, you're a coward!
Boris: Yes, but I'm a militant coward.
Sonja: What are you suggesting, passive resistance?
Boris: No, I'm suggesting active fleeing.

That movie I watched 10 some years ago still cracks me up when I think about it. I'm just a coward like Boris. If I were to be sent to a war, I would make sure to march in the back row when the "Marching" order is given. Further, instead of following my teammates running to the enemy, as soon as the gunshots start, I'd just pretend being shot and falling to the ground, faking death. And then I would flee at the first possible opportunity.

Sergeant: If they kill more Russians, they win. If we kill more Frenchmen, we win.
Boris: What do we win?

You get the picture: I'm pro-life! Like Boris, I don't know who my enemies are and what I can win in combat.

I have run a list of the crimes I have done and been done to, from the early crime of once cutting down a sugarcane in the farmer's sugarfield in the 8th grade to the later more elevated crimes, a couple of which in that list I wish to have an undo or erase button to undo or erase, or at least to have a shovel to bury the associated memory deep into the grave, never to be dug out again.  However, if Albert Einstein is correct in his mass energy equation, also the theory of relativity  E=mc² which says "all motion can be measured only in relation to the observer who performs the measurement, and time and position are all relative to the observer", then I should believe: 1): Everything happens for rhymes or reasons; 2): If the thymes sound off-tune or the reasons seem unreconcilabled. Therefore, I refuse to take an enemy combatant regardless of how I'm regarded as by the other side. I hear if you don't have an enemy, you have never stood up for something. If so, first tell me what I should stand up for. I also hear if you don't know how to hate, you don't know how to love. If so, first show me how to love. Until then, I'm fleeing with you, Boris.

Soldier 1: The idea is not to panic and run... then they shoot you in the back.
Soldier 2: I don't want to be trampled by a horse. What about you, Boris?
Boris: [sarcastically] Yeah, I want to be trampled by a horse. I don't even want to fight.

See my next blog Enemies in Combat - Animal Kingdom - Part II