What do you think is a good alternative to war?

Question

Or do you think war is necessary when two groups are in conflict?

Answer 1

A difficult question to answer... while I don't believe that violence is the answer, well planned and executed violence has stopped extended conflicts.
For example, during World War 2, the US could have dropped the atomic bomb on a non-inhabited island instead of Hiroshima but in dropping it on Hiroshima and showing that the US was and is prepared to do whatever it takes to safeguard itself from all comers, the war was greatly shortened. Also, do you think that the nazi's would've have stopped their violent actions had not nations stepped in and fought back in a world war?

It seems that violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst.

Still, if people lived together in peace to begin with than there shouldn't be any violence. after all, when people are pure, laws are useless... laws are also useless when people are corrupt... people are going to be the way they are regardless.

so, to make a long answer longer, one alternative to war is to turn the whole world into a totalitarian government ruled by one person who determines how things should be and anyone who disagrees gets shot or "re-educated".

another option is push harder on becoming technologically advanced so that intersteller space travel becomes viable and people who are like each other can leave to go and populate a whole planet based on their beliefs.

another option, and I read this in some fiction book, is to trade children with your enemies so that children are raised by their own enemies and thus become friends instead.

I've been in over 1,000 fights in my martial arts career in my younger days mostly in the ring but a few were not and if there was an alternative, at the time, it wasn't showing itself to me.

Still, I would have to say that if there was a good alternative to war, that doesn't involve me lving on my knees, I would definitely like to know. I would rather fight than bow down to any one. people may call it war, I call it defending myself and my honor...

therein lay the issue... they call it 'defending myself and my honor' as well... who's right? one side or the other or both? only history can tell and history, as we know, is written by the victors not the losers...

Answer 2

No one wants to go to war, But the best defense is a good offense. War is only necessary when certain groups aren't willing to work things out peacefully. War is usually the last option. I guess it's a good thing that the US has the greatest military in the world.

Answer 3

Sports. Get Israel (and Palestine) as well as Egypt and Lebanon to cohoat soccer's World Cup Finals. That should speed up the peace process.

But, yeah, sadly sometimes war is necessary. I don't see how Vietnam would have ever been united peacefully or even the USA.

Answer 4

To have a good communique with different international locations. In europe we call it politics. We sit down and vote for or against issues and if we are in a position to transmit innovations development bridges via enterprise relationships or lifestyle exchanges, there are lot of posibilities, yet to assert formally that the afghanistan human beings ought to be smoked out, is probably no longer the main remarkable initiate for a goog communique. we are interior the millenium and conflict should not be mandatory, as quickly as we've a good style of different common assignments to remedy approximately atmosphere politic and pollutants. And we nonetheless ought to commerce. HMMMMM the U. S. has super economic ability interior the international, ought to conflict be it??? its like putting moore wood on the hearth.

Answer 5

The leaders of conflicting countries should be placed in a ring and forced to fight to the death. The winning leader wins the war and the territory. It is that simple

Answer 6

If people can be neighbors without lobbing rockets into each others back yards, or some nuts strapping on a bomb and getting on a bus blowing people up just because you don't agree with their religion? I'm thinking it's hard to be the pacifist when you are on the receiving end of that on a regular basis.

Answer 7

There is a group of people who want war. Who attack peace loving nations. They always make the first strike and love to kill and hide behind children. They consider the dead children, women and men matyrs for islam. Yet they are the first ones to cry murder. They strike at will then run and hide. They go into malls, shopping centers and sit at bus stops with bombs and kill with hidden bombs and sometimes themselves. They take as many innocent men women and children as they can. So what is the alternative. Go out and get yourself killed and your family will say oh well at least we have peace. I say no. Kill them before they kill you. Kill them and anyone whom thinks like them. That includes their children.

Answer 8

war is necessary at times

Answer 9

There is no alternative to war. Some people only understand violence. There will always be fighting. Its basic human nature to resort to violence. There will always be difference of opinion thus there will always be war.

Answer 10

A "Gift". Like giving them money or foods. Israel should do that to stop hizbullah attacks.