Realists

There are an awful lot of realists in my international relations class, so me, being not a realist and much more liberal, can find that a little irritating.  Actually though, I can listen to the aspects of realism without getting very angry (sometimes), but when a realist has leaps in logic that make no actual sense and claim that they're right because of that...I can get pissed off.

And I did in class today.  Actually I stooped to mocking some people.  It was mean, yet fun, in its own way. 

But seriously, their argument centered around the anarchy of the international system and how that causes war.  Except...they never actually argued how anarchy causes war.  It was sort of like the underpants gnomes in South Park.  Except, the realist version goes:

Step 1: Have anarchy.

Step 2: ?????

Step 3: War! 

And to have that be your central argument against the theory of Democratic Peace (which I believe heavily, truth be told), I'm not sorry when I openly call you out on your leaps in logic. 

Ugh.

Class today was so painful. 

Realists.  Realists everywhere.  

[Edit] - Unrelated, but electrical engineer just asked me to go to a showing of Lewis Black with him on the 27th.

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Why is everything for that stupid day!  I would have loved to go, sob.  So many things, all on one day.  Sob.