Just what is wrong with war?

Question

seems like a harmless game from my front porch.

Answer 1

Nothing, as long as you're having fun.

Answer 2

This reminds me of a couple of lines from Pink Floyd's classic song, "Us and Them":

"'Forward', they cried from the rear, and the front rank died,
Generals sat, and the lines on the map moved from side to side."

It's always been a little too easy to view war as a game from a distance. That's more true than ever in today's world, where the simple push of a button could wipe out a city. If only the president were required to spend some time on the front lines in every war, maybe then he'd think twice about going to war for questionable reasons.

Answer 3

Everything! You may change your mind if you were in the middle of a war zone!!Disasters make news. Television and newspapers show us the pictures: the destruction, the injured survivors, the dead. What we don't see, unless we're the victims of an earthquake or flood or volcano ourselves, is what life is like afterwards. We rarely get glimpses of survivors struggling to cope with grief and illness or disability, in makeshift conditions and facing years - maybe even a lifetime - of deprivation and loss.

There is another kind of disaster: war. Pictures from war zones show the same tragic scenes, the same dreadful aftermath. But war is worse. When war is going on, help for its victims may be slow in coming, or never arrive at all. The victims can themselves become pawns of war: deliberately driven from their homes, abused or tortured, their towns and villages bombed or burned. Large areas of land become uninhabitable, poisoned by dangerous chemicals and littered with unexploded weapons that go on killing for years to come. Some people - often children - are forced by governments or self-appointed leaders to join in the fighting and commit brutal acts and killings themselves. In war zones law and order disappear, and no-one is safe.
Unlike earthquakes, floods and volcanic eruptions, war is a disaster created entirely by people, against people. It is never an accident: making war is always somebody's decision. Nations spend vast amounts of money on training soldiers to fight and kill. They spend even more on devising and manufacturing weapons and machinery for fighting and killing. That is not the only expense. Huge sums are also needed for dealing with the damage when a war is officially over. ('Officially', because the effects of war continue long after the truce has been signed.)
From this evidence alone, it ought to be clear to everyone that there's little to be said for war. But little has been done to liberate the world from it. War still fascinates and excites some people, though it fills many others with revulsion and horror. Too many people - and too many of their leaders - still think that war is defensible, and that it's not actually wrong for people to learn how to kill each other in large numbers.
For all these reasons, and more, the invention of war is one of humankind's greatest blunders.

Answer 4

A HARMLESS GAME?!?! Are you serious???? I'd like you to pick up a gun and go to Iraq to fight the enemy, to watch blood spill to the ground, to take the life away from a human being, to observe a child die due to a bomb explosion. I'd like for you to feel fear every second that you are away from your home. People who don't appreciate how much our soldiers have given up make their deaths and their sacrifices all in vain. Support our troops. They are doing all of this so that people can live without fear.

Answer 5

War is not the best foot we can put forward to show our true nature to the advanced civilizations that have been monitoring the Earth ever since we became interesting (Atomic weapons testing). They are going to stop us from establishing our wonderful civilization off this planet until we mature as a species or die not trying.

Answer 6

of course its harmless from your front porch,at least thats the way it looks,just like cancer war is affecting you whether you know it or not,i could give you example after example from higher gas prices to government funded programs cutback so why should you care,why?well it dont matter.you don care.

Answer 7

From your perspective war is not a rpoblem then. Enjoy your view.

If you change your perspective, your opinion may change. For example, your family is the one whose dinner was disrupted by a missile dropped on your dinner table. Or your children maimed or killed by shrapnel as they come across and play with an undischarged carpet bomb shell.

Answer 8

People die thats whats wrong with war

Answer 9

Everything is wrong with all wars!

Answer 10

then stay in your porsch till some bomb come and wake u up... war is not far from anyone now

Answer 11

ok go to lebanon, feel the israeli airstrike and find out what's wrong with it