It’s much easier for people to respond that way. How could I toss out a big question and expect people to answer it without first providing one of my own? Plus if you want people to stick their necks out and give an opinion, you have to do it yourself first. So… yes, I’ll think about some examples here.

A big serious example came to mind but I haven’t the stomach to describe it right now. So on a related matter:

Taking your idea and transposing it to a survey - the yes/no/maybe type of survey - I love those and think that should be a feature! Then the survey could lead to discussion.

Okay I’ll describe the big serious example. The twin towers fell. What if we had done nothing? Except mourn, grieve, accept blessings from the world, and yes - retreat, in the sense of pulling troops out of Saudi Arabia. What if we had put up no defenses? That would have been extremely brave, imho (harder to do than defending), and yet - I wonder if the world would be a more peaceful place today for it.

On a smaller scale I don’t even know if I can do this in my own life. Put up no defenses. When I think about it right now, it seems like it would take far greater courage and greater faith to do that. Faith in what I don’t know. Just faith that it’s the better choice.

I wonder if it might be interesting to site guests if we presented posts like this and asked for examples of how “A defense against anything is an act of war”? Or perhaps we can ask for examples that can both support and undermine the statement?