Is war ever a good thing?

DOOM

I'd like to think the Revolutionary War helped some people out.

Brain

Friedrich Nietzsche said that war needs no reason, and should be fought for it's own sake, because it makes men strong.

Aaron C

If the only remedy to evil is war, then war is absolutely just. If a state invades and dominates neighboring states, commits genocide against persons deemed undesirable, and does not respond to economic and diplomatic solutions, then it would be unjust NOT to wage war on this state in order to correct that injustice.

If a state commits genocide within its own borders and does not respond to economic and diplomatic solutions, then it would be unjust NOT to wage war on thsi state in order to correct that injustice.

The rule of law is absolutely meaningless without the threat of punishment upon the transgression of that law.

spkultr

oh yea, of course, dude. like the "war on drugs", or the "war on the middle class", or like "the war on terra". without constant entertainment, we americans would have to resort to critical thinking, and that, to put it lightly, scares the bejesus out of us.

vladoviking

I believe it has been called a "necessary evil"

hardwoodrods

Well I would submit the Civil War was good from the stand point of the slaves.....

sara

I really didnt think so untill my husband got deployed. Hearing the stories about the women and children and the stuff that has happend to them over there is terrible and the military is acually making it better for the pople really!

4kit

War is a in grained in us as humans. It is a survive thing from the beginning. It started with individuals competing over food and shelter then with clans and groups and worked its way up major battles then wars. War are fought over land, water, religion etc.
Today it is just part of us for the same reason for the most part. As population increases more wars will be in our future.
Necessity, I don't know but its been with us since the beginning of man and it will be with us until the end of mankind.

Brendan J

If it were not for WWII we may not of gotten out of the Great Depression. However the current war that we are in is nothing but a great hassle. It is pointless.

liquidfire

War is never a good thing! Rulers of old civilizations use to declare war on their weaker neighbors so their supply of food and water resources would be theirs, providing they won the war. This extra land, food and water enabled the attacker to expand his own nation, and brought in additional captured enemy to be used for slaves. The captured women were used as entertainment for the soldiers who had fought the wars.

The offspring, or children of the defeated nation were either adopted into new families, used as slaves or eliminated, depending upon their ages upon being captured. The older the youth, the quicker they would be put to death, as they would grow up seeking revenge against the ruling party for killing or enslaving their parents.

Wars now a days are fought because someone, somewhere, feels that a certain enemy has taken something away from them that they felt was theirs, or for greed, such as oil or other natural resources.

Wars are never any good, all they do is create death, destruction and humilation for the loser. Why not have a simple game of chess to decide who is the right party or the wrong party in dealing with international problems?

only those individuals who have not ever been engaged in actual combat with an enemy force will want to go to war, maybe its a macho thing. But once they are engaged in actual combat, and can see just what war does do to the human body and the mind, they return home(if they are lucky) and never want to have to experience such a living horror ever again, in fact, most will speak out against going to war, over anything, once they themselves have experienced it.

The American economy has always thrived on wars, especially when there is a depression, with thousands of unemployed people available, then the leaders of this great country decide that what they need to make the country stronger is to declare war on someone, anyone, just so long as they think ahead of time that they can beat that enemy, hands down! Where the problem arises is when that 'enemy' doesn't bend as quickly as our leaders want them to, then as past history shows, the American People become engaged in a long drawn out war. Korea, Vietnam and now, Iraq!

Sane and civilized races avoid going to war at all costs!

Thank you,

jarheadgriff

"The only thing necessary for the truimph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." - Sir Edmund Burke
"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the evil that is in it, but because of those whou REFUSE to do nothing about it." -Albert Einstein
"For those who have never fought for it, the taste of freedom is quite different for those who have." -Capt Robert Howard
"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.- J.R.R. Tolkien

I think this says enough and says it best.

scarlettt_ohara

Life is based on struggle and competition so wars are inevitable. A just or necessary war is one which is in the interest of my group so that it's survival is assured and it's subjugation is avoided.

AquAzul

It is a "good thing" only when you have to defend yourself or your family or country, not otherwise.

mizundrstood

YEA THEY ARE HAVE U EVR WATCHED "300" THE MOVIE

b8k3p

"War, what is it good for, absolutely nothing."

CODY & PRINNY'S MAMA

I don't agree with any war.

"Those who live by the sword will die by the sword." the bible says.

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE!

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