It seems that the "Proposition" is to stop all wars. There is a lot of powerful imagery about wars: "price of freedom" being the shattered youth of whole generations; "pay for the crime of feeling" is about the unnatural need to shut down your emotions during a war and behave inhumanly; "who's deciding?" is the eternal question of meaningfulness/meaningless of wars...
I especially like the verse "When all your pride is dead you must be scared instead". Pride is one possible reason for waging a war, but gradually the sense of it all gets lost in the horrors and all that is left is despair and fear.
It seems that the "Proposition" is to stop all wars. There is a lot of powerful imagery about wars: "price of freedom" being the shattered youth of whole generations; "pay for the crime of feeling" is about the unnatural need to shut down your emotions during a war and behave inhumanly; "who's deciding?" is the eternal question of meaningfulness/meaningless of wars...
I especially like the verse "When all your pride is dead you must be scared instead". Pride is one possible reason for waging a war, but gradually the sense of it all gets lost in the horrors and all that is left is despair and fear.