when war is justified?

Question

just need a lot informations on that subject so. can somebody tell me when war is justified?

Answer 1

Wars are always justified by someone and for lots of reasons, but when it comes down to it there are only three reasons.

Self-defense, or being attacked is a justifiable reason to go to war, anyone who does not accept that as a premise deserves to be conquered. That includes invasion! Consider Americas role in WWII. Japan attacked the US and we went to War

War for natural resources was probably the most common cause of war in the last century. Japan attacked china and Indochina in order to get oil and food for expanding industries and populations. Germany attacked the Soviets for oil and land in WWII. The African wars of the past 20 years were largely over Diamonds and food. Vietnam also had oil involved.

The final reason that war is justified is idealism/theology. This is probably the most common recent cause. Religious intolerance has been behind wars since the crusades. In the Middle ages, the Christians began by attempting to recover Jerusalem from the muslims who had naturally acquired it through their own tribal wars. The first crusade was launched at that time and the Mideast has been in an uproar ever since. Recently, radical Muslim extremists have attempted to declare war all over the world and are fighting this war in a new way using our technology against us. a sort of crusade in reverse. Since the formation of Israel in 1949, Muslims who had had land taken by the UN and given to the Israelis have been fighting against Israel. Now the Muslim countries control that same UN and are anti-Israeli in every respect.

So war will be justified for any of a number of variations of the above and it seems that the only way to prevent such wars is to go on the attack and eliminate all external competitors, or discover a real peace, however as long as there are causes or lack of resources, then there will be wars, justifiable or not to us!

Answer 2

Armies, and wars in general, are needed as a natural part of human evolution. When you look at war from a long-range perspective, it becomes clear that, as destructive as wars are, their very destructiveness has served as the primary force for the evolution of the human race. By mercilessly elimnating those who were unable to survive in the theater of war, wars resulted in a constant upgrading of both the physiological and intellectual acuity of man.

Although many bright people perish in wars, the preponderance of the casualties occur among people with the limited intellectual capacity to understand the mechanics of wars and who are thus unable to avoid becoming casualties.

Who would seriosly dispute the fact that smart people have higher living standards than intellectually less endowed persons do? War elimnates the intellectually less fit and thus, in the end, raises the average intelligence and the living standards of society as a whole.

Throughout the ages, evolution took advantage of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, war, natural disasters, disease and famine.

If we succeed in eliminating armies and war, we are also eliminating war in its capacity as a powerful contributor to evolution by keeping the world population in check. We are now at 6 billion humans, scientific projections of growth predict 10 billion within 50 years...mostly in under developed countries. Humanity will reach the limits of available resources at 9-12 billion..this is not sustainable.

We can only speculate as to which path evolution will take in reducing the world from 10 to 3 billion. A battle for resources will favor those with higher levels of intelligence and rationality. Evolution never receds to irrationality, superstition and stupidity.

Answer 3

War is never justified.