Why do we accept war as a necessary evil when it could easily destroy us?

Question

We have war colleges and military industrial complex which prepare for destruction of others called enemies and gamble with our own destruction. These are well funded. Peace seems to be dismissed as weak, idealistic, unreal. It's what all religions want but apparently not as much as victory, conquest, exclusivity. This doesn't seem intelligent to me. Does it to you?

Answer 1

If someone comes up to you and whacks you on the head, what would you do? Hit them back? Turn the other cheek? Suppose they whack you again? Are you going to run away?

It's probably a good idea. Maybe you're not into fighting and don't want to piss the guy off. Get a police officer or something. (e.g. someone that's gone to school to learn how to deal with a thug on the street. Someone who will hit the thug back, if needed.)

Isn't it great that we have the resources to afford a military to protect our freedoms so that we can sit in our comfortable homes and pontificate and bloviate on the ideal notion that war is an "obsolete concept".

And, by the way, freedoms DO need protecting. Study the history around just about any nation in any time of history that stood by appeasing a gathering threat. Meetings, discussions, summits, councils, weighted voting, and brainstorming are not effective tools against a gathering threat that is both deeply entrenched and willing to chop off the heads of hostages.

Peace is better than war. But, until our enemies are (1) no longer a threat to us and (2) our enemies are willing and increasingly able to threaten our security, war IS a necessarily evil that is better off well-funded.

Answer 2

If I have a gun the chances that a person will attack me (knowing that I am armed) are low.

To invest in the military is to show the aggressive nations of the world that we are prepared to defend ourselves if necessary. That does not mean that we should implement our military forces for any reason (which I'm sure we would all agree or disagree when it comes to the individual circumstances as we look at them historically or currently).

Peace is an EXCELLENT idea. But it is unrealistic to assume that if we throw away our only defense (the military/weapons) that others will do the same. We live in a world with people who will gladly steal and kill. It is not a pretty thought, but it is true. To allow an enemy to oppress us is not peace.

Religions are after what they consider "TRUTH". By definition it has to be exclusive. That does not mean they are war mongering. I know peace-loving muslims who are Americans. And good Mormons who have shown others great kindness, even though they did not hold the same beliefs.

There is a major difference between peace and letting someone walk all over you, (oppression).

Answer 3

When I was in the Air Force SAC was one of the strongest organizations on earth. They held tens of thousands of weapons of mass destruction. They were capable of destroying the world several times over. What was their Motto: "Peace is our profession" That was a dangerous time in world history. Two super powers holding the world together only thru strength. If there had been weakness shown by the US I am sure war Nuclear War would have been unavoidable, Today the US stand alone as the only true super power. Still the power to destroy the earth many times but have she, NO, why because we aren't interested in conquest just making the world safer for all... Jim.

Answer 4

Carthage was thoroughly destroyed by war, and thereafter Carthage had several hundred years of peace and prosperity.

Spanking a Child to remind them not to run into the street is generally accepted as a "necessary evil" ( I have other methods personally).

War is what men do, Like the Chinese parable of the tiger and the chicken. The chicken knows he is dealing with a tiger, don't blame a tiger for eating chicken, it's what they do.

Answer 5

Its no longer mandatory. do no longer ignore that in usting Saddam Hussein (which become no longer even the unique reason behind going to warfare . . . shop in ideas the WMD's) . . . over 60, 000 civilians were killed besides. those are the significant causalties of any warfare. a present day militia action might want to be extra contained in the variety of a police action . . . compared to in Korea contained in the 1950's which become particularly a warfare, in spite of the undeniable fact that the militia needs to act as a police rigidity, surgically targeted on the enemy after a lot analyze. If there turned right into a drug problem on your community, operating example, you'll not anticipate the police to apply deadly rigidity on the outset and use clusterbombs to rid the realm of any accessible druge sellers because it ought to contained in the longer time period terrorize the community worse than the drugs. check out, come to a sensible procedure action and execute it with as little carnage is accessible . . . and with a touch greed reason as accessible. the alternative is what we've continually had previously . . . . mass homicide for earnings.

Answer 6

Yes, it seems very intelligent and with all due respect, your ideas would only be valid if the evil forces in the world were reasonable would not destroy the people aligned with good. War is necessary for defending the very existence of decent people and nations. Please, seek self-help methods to rid your self of liberal thinking.

I hereby strongly recommend for you the following advice: GIVE WAR A CHANCE!!!

Answer 7

There is no money to be made by not building arms...

As an example: the US military costs one billion dollars per DAY! Naturally, the war in Iraq is a few hundred million per day extra.

Answer 8

Soon war will cease.

ASV

2Co 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh

Jam 4:1 Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
Jam 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

Mic 4:2 And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem;

Isa 2:4 And he will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Answer 9

The important people rarely die in wars, it's only the unimportant people who die. George Bush refers to US soldiers as "fodder units" because he knows bodies need to die in order for war to work. Is the war in Iraq working? It sure is. Many of the richest friends of the Bush administration have made lots of money in this war, they are very thankful that it's going on no matter how many fodder units it costs.

Answer 10

war is the highest form of manipulation.though our knowledge has increased in course of time, our wisdom has not increased
proportionally.people often misunderstand patriotism ashatred for other countries rather than love for thier country.there is no need for our earth rather this universe into parts.