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Franco Fornari states that the enemy is experienced as a "force that destroys our love object." This is why men see war as a duty and consider war to be one of the basic human values. Those who make war, Fornari explains, are not driven by a hate need but by "a love need." Soldiers are willing to sacrifice themselves in order to preserve the common love object. What is the beloved object in the name of which people wage war? People wage war in the name of their nation and its sacred ideals.
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