How do you address an issue from more than a simple pro and con approach.....?

Question

with an wide ranged concept like war, or God, or love for instance?

Answer 1

Head on - Apply directly to the forehead.!

Answer 2

Make a "solution" tree.... start with your simple pro/con, but branch off to pro/con of each pro or con...
War:
Pro: Keeps us safe
Pro of that: We sleep at nite
Con of that: It is merely an illusion of safety

Con: Kills innocent people
Pro of that: But it also gets the bad guys
Con of that: Makes people hate us

As you can see, each pro has its own pro/con and each con can have its own pro/con...

By the time you are done, you will have befuddled the mind and given up on the argument.

OR: You can ask the journalistic questions of each subject..

Who does it (War, God, Love, etc) benefit?
What benefits are achieved?
When do the benefits kick in?
How are the benefits manifested?
Where do we experience these benefits?
To what extent are the benefits beneficial? When do they stop being beneficial?

While it is still a pro/con approach, it is more complex.

Answer 3

You can look at an issue from many different perspectives.
For example take war. You could look at war if you put yourself in the shoes of your enemies, or into the position of the mothers of the soldiers going to war.
You could also ask what effect this war would have to everything connected to it. To nature, animals, humans, environment, politics etc.
Then you can ask about the intention of the war? What is the intention to have a war, what need will be fulfilled through that and is the intention in alignment with the consequences? So if somebody goes into a war to bring peace to the people of another country, but many men, kids woman are killed in this war and so the peace in families were destroyed through this, did you achieve your intention through the consequences or not, or where your intention all along different then what one said?
Then you can ask, what is an aspect of war and to what higher group does it belong to? War is between people and you can ask yourself, where do people belong to?
You can look at subjects like this through your intellectual thinking or you can concentrate on this subjects with letting your heart or intuition speak.
You can see how this concepts fit into the larger picture so look at them globally, or look at them in specific contexts?
You can look at them referring to the past, to the present or the future.
You can also look at a war for example and look at "all" involved, or look at only some very specific part of it.
I am sure that there are more aspects to look at things.
One might look at love from a physical point of view explaining feelings of love as based on hormones or whatever, or you can look at love from a spiritual point of view or the way Jesus talked about love for example.
Some try to find GOD in nature or in scientific studies, others try to find it with their spirit. And on and on and on.

Answer 4

Take a utilitarianism approach - all action should be directed toward achieving the greatest utility (happiness) for the greatest number of people

Answer 5

Life is simple, but since you insist in complicating it, here it goes: I give you complication of simplicity!0!

How about you forget about the cons and only see the pros, and see what happens. Remember, whatever happens, it's just pros, no cons. Taste and see!

Sapere aude!

Answer 6

Look at the issue and consider the best solution to it. Then see if the impact is detrimental to anyone and if so to whom and to what extent. Be completely honest and ethical about it all. If the situation becomes dangerous, submit it to a commitee for cover.

Answer 7

Do a comparitive study of global impact and sociological reasoning.

Answer 8

Use basic logic.
Start with the foundation of a subject and bulid on it from there.

Answer 9

That would be called "apathy".
In other words, it is pro, con, or "Frankly, my dear, ....."