What is the point of wars?

Question

What is the point of wars and racism, everything bad in the world caused by evil, stupid people, it just messes the world up and ruins people's lives? Why cant people just be happy? There is nothing wrong with being a different colour or religion!

Answer 1

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"We have heard any number of musicians and they all play a number of different notes. How come you are stuck with a single note?» The man answered, «I have found the right note; others are still searching for it. That is why I stick to the right spot. I need not search any more.» Our minds would like to choose a single note of life and deny all others. But only in death can one find a single note. As far as life is concerned, it is composed of different and contradictory notes. If you have seen an arched door in some old building, you might have noticed that, to construct it, opposite kinds of bricks are laid side by side. And it is the opposite kinds of bricks, placed together, that hold the heavy burden of the house on their shoulders. Can you conceive of using the same kinds of bricks in the construction of an archway? Then the house cannot be constructed; it will collapse then and there. The entire structure of our life is held together by the tension of its opposites - and war is a part of the tension that is life. And those who think that war is totally harmful and destructive are wrong; their vision is fragmentary, myopic. If we try to understand the course of development that man and his civilization have followed, we will realize that war plays the largest share in its growth. Whatever man has today - all the good things of life - were found primarily through the medium of war. If we find today that the whole earth is covered with roads and highways, the credit should go to war and to preparations for war. These roads and highways were first constructed for the sake of waging war, for the purpose of dispatching armies to distant lands. They did not come into being for the sake of two friends meeting or for a man and a woman belonging to two distant towns to marry. The fact is, they came into being for the encounter of two enemies, for the purpose of war. We see big buildings all over. They all came in the wake of castles. And castles were the products of war. The first high walls on this earth were built with a view to keep out the enemies, and then other high walls and buildings followed. And now we have skyscrapers in all the big cities of the world. But it is difficult to think that these highrises are the progenies of war. All of man's modern affluence, backed by scientific inventions and high technology - indeed all his achievements - basically owe their existence to war. In fact, war creates such a state of tension in the mind of man and presents such challenges, that our dormant energies are shaken to their roots and, as a result, they awaken and act. We can afford to be lazy and lethargic in times of peace, but moments of war are quite different. War provokes our dynamism. Confronted with extraordinary challenges, our sleep ing energies have to awaken and assert themselves. That is why, during a war, we function as extraordinary people; we simply cease to be the ordinary people that we are. Confronted with the challenge of war, man's brain begins to function at its highest level and capacity. In times of war man's intelligence takes a great leap forward, one it would ordinarily take centuries to make. Many people think that if Krishna had pre vented the war of Mahabharat, India would have attained to great affluence, she would have touched high peaks of growth and greatness. But the truth is just the opposite. If we had had a few more people of Krishna's caliber and had fought more wars like the Mahabharat, we would have been at the pinnacle of our growth today. About five thousand years have passed since the Mahabharat, and for these five thousand years we have not fought a single major war. The wars we have had since then were baby wars in comparison with that epic war of the Kurukshetra. They have been quite petty and insignificant. Indeed it would be wrong to even call them wars, they were petty fights and skirmishes. Had we only fought some major wars we would be the richest and most advanced country on this planet today. But our present state of affairs is just the opposite: we are at the bottom of the ladder. The countries that fought great wars are at the pinnacle of development and prosperity today. At the end of the First World War people thought Germany was destroyed, debilitated for good. But in just twenty years, in the Second World War, Germany emerged as an infinitely more powerful country than the Germany of the First World War. No one could have even dreamed this country could fight another war after she was so badly beaten in the first. Seemingly, there was no possibility for Germany to go to war for hundreds of years. But just in twenty years time the miracle happened, and Germany emerged as a giant world power. Why? - because with will and vigor this country utilized the energies released by the First World War. With the conclusion of the Second World War it seemed that there might be no more wars in the world. But, so soon, the powers that fought it are ready for a much deadlier and dreadful war than the last. And the two countries - Germany and Japan - that suffered the worst destruction and defeat in the last war have emerged, amazingly, as two of the most affluent countries in the world. Who can say, after visiting today's Japan, that only twenty years ago atom bombs fell on this country? Of course, after visiting present-day India, one could say that this country has been subjected to recurring atomic bombardments. One look at our wretched state can make one think that, down the ages, we have been through unending destruction brought about by war after war. The Mahabharat is not responsible for India's degradation and misery. The long line of teachers that came in the shadow of that war were all against war, and they used the Mahabharat to further their anti-war stance. Pointing to that great war they said, «What a terrible war! What appalling violence! No, no more of such wars! No more of such bloodshed!» It was unfortunate we failed to produce a line of people of the caliber of Krishna and also failed to fight more Mahabharats. Had it been so, we would have reached, in every succeeding war, a peak of consciousness much higher than the one reached during the Mahabharat. And, undoubtedly, today we would be the most prosperous and developed society on this earth. There is another side of war which deserves consideration. A war like the Mahabharat does not happen in a poor and backward society; it needs riches to wage a great war. At the same time war is needed to create wealth and prosperity, because war is a time of great challenges. If only we had many more wars like the one Krishna led! Let us look at this thing from another angle. Today the West has achieved the same height of growth that India had achieved at the time of the Mahabharat. Almost all the highly sophisticated weapons of war that we now possess were used in the Mahabharat in some form or other. It was a highly developed, intelligent and scientific peak that India had scaled at the time of that historic war. And it was not the war that harmed us. Something else harmed us. What really harmed us was the fit of frustration that came over us in the wake of the war, and its exploitation by the teachers of those times. The same fit of frustration has now seized the West, and the West is frightened. And if the West falls, the pacifists will be held responsible for it. And its fall is certain if the West follows the pacifists. Then the West will be in the same mess that India found herself in after the Mahabharat. India listened to her pacifists and had to suffer for it for five thousand years. So this matter needs to be considered fully. Krishna is not a hawk, not a supporter of war for war's sake. He, however, treats war as part of life's game. But he is not a warmonger."

Answer 2

In every war there are several turning points. For World War 2 a few major turning points are: The german decision to stop the advance in France, thus allowing the British and French Reebarkment in Dunkirk. The german decision to invade Russia. The US entering the war after Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. The Strategic bombings in Germany '43-'44. Kursk (more than Stalingrad, here the germans lost the initiative of the war in the east for good). The surrender of The Afrika Korps. The Success of the D-Day Landings Midway The battle in the Gulf of Leyte Guadalcanal

Answer 3

Well, lets research this a bit..

(btw, I am NOT very well educated in this subject, so forgive me if I make any errors)

I know the Civil War was started because the Union and the Confederacy disagreed on the subject of slavery, yes? No.

The Civil War was proven to be for economic gain. It had nothing to do with 'freeing the slaves' or 'bringing about equality'. The North recognized that the South had more manpower, and therefore a larger margin of profit than the North. Ending slavery was merely to eradicate the South's ability to efficiently produce crops. Or so I've been taught.

Yes, it is true that Lincoln wanted to grant slaves equal rights, but NOT because he recognized them as equal to white men; simply because he recognized them as human. He still admitted that 'negroes' were lesser than white men, or subhuman.


As for current wars, they are being fought on religious grounds (or they will be). The Qur'an specifically says to 'kill the infidels' as 'Soldiers of Allah'. I should be copy/pasting some scripture here, but I'm too lazy.

Anyway, war is stupid, and so are people.

Answer 4

To show who's got the biggest willy.Apart from that,There's no good reason.

Answer 5

You're right. I'm so glad you pointed this out to us. Now we can all live happily ever after. Thanks so much.

Answer 6

I agree but i think it has to do with money.

Answer 7

there is no point its just about some idiot's ego