If peace was just a sacrifice away, could you sacrifice yourself or your health for mankind?

Question

I mean seriously, if something was within your view, knowledge & only you seemed to know what was going on, could you lay it down for the greater good? Honest answers please.

Answer 1

This is exactly what terrorist believe...I mean word for word.

Answer 2

The Best Way to Sacrifice ....Sacrifice WHAT???

Sacrifice

There's nothing in life that can take place without sacrifice. Everything we achieve or receive can be traced as a result of some sacrifice. This we all understand, more or less. But only generalized understanding may mean superficial understanding in many cases. Understanding, unless it pervades all dimensions of the mind, emotions included, can't activate the mind strongly enough so as to help make choices.

Making choices is a precondition for making decisions, for decision making means limiting the number of choices with reference to certain standards. And this is where the concept of sacrifice becomes very relevant. In fact, making a choice involves making a sacrifice.

The concept of sacrifice, which doesn't necessarily involve a religious overtone, can be more effectively understood by comparing and contrasting it with the concepts of expenditure, loss, and wastage.

Expenditure can be defined as an investment waiting to be discovered as either a gain or a loss.

A loss is expenditure that has lost its promise. Wastage refers to the loss of resource due to inefficient management. While loss is investment identified as unpromising, wastage is the loss of resource in a way which was either not predicted or not meant to be an investment. In other words, loss is the decrease in the input and wastage is the decrease in the output. Among these three concepts, sacrifice can't be compared with any, though it can be contrasted with all of them. Sacrifice is neither expenditure nor loss, nor wastage  it's investment that never fails.

If you want to be a knowledgeable professor, you must sacrifice a lot of time, effort, pleasure, sleep, convenience, etc. If, likewise, you want to be a good leader, you'll need to sacrifice ease of life, rest, personal desires, narrow emotions, and so on. Those who believe in the Hereafter do, because they must, sacrifice much in this life. Those who are atheists sacrifice, at least in the eyes of believers in a Hereafter, something greater than anybody else does  that is, the life of eternal peace and enjoyment in the Hereafter. If you want to enjoy what you call chastity (whether you're a man or a woman being of no special concern), then you have to sacrifice the pleasure of free sex. On the contrary, if you want to enjoy free sex, then you must sacrifice chastity. In a word, there's sacrifice everywhere.

So if you want to have a long-term plan for success in life, then you have to sit with a piece of paper and a pencil to make a list of:

 What you've already sacrificed without any motive  that is, wasted;

 What you've sacrificed with definite purposes and what you've achieved;

 What things you should have sacrificed but you haven't;

 What things you shouldn't have sacrificed but you have;

 What things you need to sacrifice in the future to achieve certain goals; and

 If you make the required sacrifice, what important things or opportunities you may have to lose in the future.

Remember that you can consciously or unconsciously sacrifice the following:

- Material resource
-Time
-Opportunity
-Mental states
-Freedom
-Relationships
-Fame
-Power
-Security, and above all
-Life.

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Rather than trying to sacrificeour lives, why don’t we attempt to sacrifice our deaths?

Life can't be transformed by sacrificig death, if death can't be overcome.

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Answer 3

Nathan Hale already did that!
and did it work?
no, he died for our country, and look what we did to celebrate the 200th aniversary, literally, that's when the worst began!
we had more feminists then imaginable, the women wore pants, as a habit, and the catholic mass got changed to the equvelent of a prodestant chuch service, with the consecration.

so thank u Nathan Hale, we really appreciate it, as u can see.
NOT!




idea!
we all act like this country was a gift!
and while we're at it, the pope can give the univeral indult 4 the tridentine mass!

Answer 4

Your question places the spotlight on a sort of bravery for the sake of mankind. It has been the thinking that drew many to the wars and ended their lives.
WAR will stop and result in worldwide PEACE when all the youth refuse to GO.
Without them, WAR will cease, and not before.
Take the GLORY out of GOING to WAR.

Answer 5

Definitely.

Answer 6

If I KNEW that laying my life down (not taking others with me like a suicide bomber) would honestly save the lives of others - definitely!

Answer 7

Even if you did some other madman would get the power to cause war.