Yes, defense is fine, but starting a war? For petty reasons, or for territory, or for natural resources...
People die in wars. I know the religious of you probably believe in an afterlife - but I do not. And killing someone is the most terrible thing you can do. Killing thousands of people? No one should have the power to start a war without their country's consent - not just the armed forces.
To me, these people have simply stopped existing. They aren't alive, anywhere, except in memories. Young men who could've had so much more of a life.
2006-11-25 23:04:43 · 6 answers · asked by lady_s_hazy 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm sure there are other ways - such as cutting off trade links etc. Countries cannot survive with a crippled economy - they would have to take into account the views of others towards their people.
2006-11-25 23:13:07 · update #1
If you don't believe in an afterlife, then aren't we all just carbon life forms anyway? What's the difference?
Not sure what you're getting at on the political/legal side, insurgents and terrorists start wars without their country's consent, armed forces do not.
2006-11-25 23:25:26 · answer #1 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
men women and children. It is a fact that wars don't just kill men.
You have not really asked a question as much as stated a position that only leaves a response of agree or disagree open.
If nobody started a war there would be no need to defend I guess but the war is here all the same. Many people think of the war as a discrete event but it is not. War is never ending. If the armies are not shooting at each other then they are loading up their arsenals and manouvering into position to shoot at each other.
2006-11-26 07:21:01 · answer #2 · answered by Barabas 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I think you're preaching to the choir here. Any decent person, religious or not, already knows that starting a war for less-than-adequate reasons isn't right.
You seem to think that religious people feel okay with people dying in wars because there's an afterlife. If so, I'm afraid you've been badly misinformed.
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2006-11-26 07:13:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes a nation will start a war if one nation see the people of another nation being treated like dogs. Sometimes it's just a human rights issue.
2006-11-26 07:08:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
(Micah 4:3-4) And he will certainly render judgment among many peoples, and set matters straight respecting mighty nations far away. And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. They will not lift up sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore. 4Â And they will actually sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one making [them] tremble; for the very mouth of Jehovah of armies has spoken [it].
This is a prophecy that has not yet come to pass. It is in the future.
2006-11-26 07:43:18 · answer #5 · answered by pugjw9896 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if NO one does anything about IRAN and they make a bomb and threaten to use it, will you regret not taking offensive action earlier in the game, especially if the blow up a city your family members live in.
2006-11-26 07:41:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋