Sometimes it's not that they think it will be fun, but that one has to gear themselves up for it because they know it will be horrible. Do all the hoo-rah talking now; once it's over you either won't be here to talk or you will never want to mentally come within an acre of the memory.
Why do people think war is going to be fun?
We seem to be on a trajectory for civil conflict in the coming decades. This is, to put it mildly, going to be a major bummer.
Sometimes it's not that they think it will be fun, but that one has to gear themselves up for it because they know it will be horrible. Do all the hoo-rah talking now; once it's over you either won't be here to talk or you will never want to mentally come within an acre of the memory.