Some people were meant to invent not fight.
I just think that on both sides there must have been some people whom were killed that could have invented or changed the world for the better and we might be futher advanced now.
2006-08-03 12:21:16 · 20 answers · asked by Jason 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
soldiers sailors and airmen are all cannon fodder for the politicians if they want wars then they are the ones who should fight and the world would be a better place now
2006-08-03 12:34:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not true. At the times of the "great" wars peace had proliferated for so long, the rowdy types were bored, and actually voluntered for service, to thrash the other side. They had no way of knowing the utter horror of the evolving "modern" warfare. the first world war, mainly with the introduction of the heavy machine gun, but also artillery, saw more people mown down more quickly, than any other conflict, before or since. Even these lessons, in the twenty or so years peace, people forgot, and once again volunteered for ww2. Conscription existed, but was barely needed, and relativly easily avoided, Many war poets existed, yes...but the scientific brains were siphoned off for behind lines duties, and 99% of eligible people with intelligence, rather than bravado, evaded, or joined up, stratigically, to non conflict positions.
So, therefore, in terms of inventions, it makes no real difference, to about 99%.
If the people whom had died had not died the world would be a very different place now, in terms of population, and social terms.
2006-08-03 12:35:30 · answer #2 · answered by ben b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Creator does not allow to perish the ones He wants to preserve. This is a minority. Rest of the world is intended for the growth what we see today. The Creator has His purpose behind it. Just imagine a situation in which a ruler with perfect justice take over the control of a country. The whole things can change.
The death of a person or a million cannot stop the advancement of the world. For the ideas are the work of spirits that control us. If not in my mind, it will develop in your mind. The work will go on.
2006-08-03 20:40:46 · answer #3 · answered by latterviews 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They say that necessity is the Mother of all inventions.
Unfortunately war does seem to be the stimuli for many of the hi-tech inventions over the years. If governments invested a fraction of that money in peacetime speculative technology then who knows what we could have. One good breakthrough invention leads to many others.
2006-08-04 05:37:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
...ahh, but the other side of that coin could be...
what if someone lived that should have died in the war, and they invented something that would forever make the world a much worse place to live in....or maybe threatened the existence of the human race?
there's no way to know either way how things could have turned out, and maybe that's not always such a bad thing.
2006-08-03 14:59:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sadly we would have had worse inventions.
Wars made governments invest money science, the wars also created NEED for invention. and as you know necessity is the mother of invention.
Without wars there would be no need to perfect such things as airplanes, tanks, radar etc etc -- all of these later found civilian uses.
Without wars we might still be using zeppelins, and have no truly massed produced cars.
2006-08-03 17:01:10 · answer #6 · answered by hq3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both wars??there has not been a single day in over 6000 years that a war hasn't been happening somewhere.....fear and greed have caused the misuse of the mind , only self realization can set right the mind and end the struggle.
2006-08-03 12:47:57 · answer #7 · answered by cory55355 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't say we'd have had better inventions, but rather different inventions, we would have advanced the same but in different fields...
Looking at it from another angle; if there were no wars, there wouldn't have been as much drive for advancement, and we might have not advanced as much, who knows?
2006-08-03 13:25:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doubt it...many of the most common inventions used today were spurred from war, from the microwave to nuclear energy.
2006-08-03 12:25:00 · answer #9 · answered by DougDoug_ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are right! Monies and energy could have been better spent looking for cures to diseases and inventions too. By now, we may have found the cure to cancers and be flying around town in our personal Heli-zoomer.
2006-08-03 12:31:43 · answer #10 · answered by Sunnidaze 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋