Dodging Raindrops

As a young child, our neighborhood gang would get bored
as summer dragged on. We argued about the darnedest things.

              Like this debate:

When a light rain shower began, we would sit under a tree.
We discussed whether we would get wetter going from
"point A to point B" if:

     1. if we walk slowly, looking skyward all the time,
        skillfully dodging as many raindrops as we could.
                                    or
     2. if a person would run really fast to get to "point B"
         and get hit by more raindrops along the way?

We discussed and argued this intriguing question endlessly . . .
and we experimented over and over endlessly.

       Just as in today's world, we discuss whether short,
       intense, catastrophic wars are better in the long run . . .
       than endless, drawn out ones.