It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.
Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.
Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
The failure of love, that's what all laws are really.
Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.
The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.