What is wrong with us? LIFE=WAR?

Question

Do we, as the human race, always end everything by war?

War? what is it good for? aboslutely nothing?

Answer 1

War, my good friend is the reality of the human race. The history of humanity can be described as constant conflict with intermittent periods of peace and during those intermittent periods of peace humans were planning the next big war. It is only human to think about what will benefit yourself which surely will conflict with what someone else thinks will benefit them and when you and another think you need the same thing to benefit yourselves and you both want it inevitably it will lead to a conflict that we will choose NOT to solve by thinking rationally but by resorting to crude physical methods of inflicting harm on our enemies to fulfill an ancient and ingrained need to hurt other people for any and every reason we can think of. In essence war creates peace because every war has a winner and loser and the brief peace comes to an end when the losers of the last war rise up again and try to win again. The fact of the matter is winning is everything and for humans there is no greater victory than a military one and that is our sad little reality.

Answer 2

War is more a beginning than an ending. War doesn't
solve problems. War happens as a result of an inability
to reach a peaceful compromise. After war is over the
platform is set for negotiating a solution. In other words,
even if war is justified it does not solve the problem, but
rather sets the stage which is conducive to solution through
compromise.

Answer 3

War isnt Life.

War is a part of life when it really gets into.
And when humans start questioning about the life which involves war, it sounds sooo stupid. Because we, humans, created the languages in our lives yet cannt communicate well using the languages but through body language , we communicate well which is WAR.

And when humans start being killed one by one, the realization of the importance of humans rises. We start objecting any proposals that may lead to War, but yet why war happens?

The egoism of one.
The long for conquering.
The desire of being superior but not down to earth.
The lack of intelligence and religion practice.
Everything is grounded on the human's minds.

Cheers
Yee Cs

Answer 4

Actually it's great for dissolving "the political bands which have connected them with another [nation] and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

You should read YOUR Declaration of Independence. The ensuing war ultimately led to what is currently the most economically and militarily powerful nation in the history of mankind.

War serves a specific and important purpose. And the men and women engaged in this endeavor deserve our complete and utter respect.

Imagine trying to negotiate Hitler from Poland, Austria, France and Italy. "Please...C'mon Adolf. I mean, war really is aboslutely [sic] good for nothing. Didn't you know?"

Answer 5

War is a necessity to an oppressed to save himself and their country from aggression when things cannot be resolved by peaceful means.
War imposed by an oppressor is not justifiable, so the defence is unavoidable unless you overcome by the oppressor to be a looser.
Similarly a war is going on with in our minds and souls over good and bad in everyday life to earn virtues and sins. Either you save your soul or you oppress your soul by the devilish instincts.
So, War is inevitable!!!!

Answer 6

Disagreements are all settled by a court. Legally, a judges court. Diplomatically, the court of public opinion. War is a trial by combat, the winner decides.

Answer 7

Its a primal instinct, we once had to fight for everything and that's how we chose to solve things now, in the end what it boils down to is people in power making bad decisions and not thinking things through before making a decisions that could affect everyone.

Answer 8

War since the beginning of time was and has always been about greed in one form or another, where it be for land, money, oil or whatever

Answer 9

War is a great opportunity for the arms manufacturers to test out all the new toys....

Answer 10

The only way to end war is by waging a war against all wars, ‘a war that would end all wars’ was said at the beginning of the First Word War, thus providing a perfectly logical and rational justification to go to war with all the might and resolve that could have been mustered. This is an example of the fact about our nature, human nature, which in my view is the prime condition for peace in this world by far – to fight under the banners of peace.

War in its various shapes and forms is unavoidable in human life. For if nations would not fight with nations then people would fight with people for the purpose of their national interests; and if people would not fight with people then persons will fight individually for the sack of their own individualistic interests and gains; and yet again, if a persons would not fight in their lives, they then would fight within, embroiled up in inner conflicts and dilemmas of most personal, emotional and spiritual nature.

The reason for war is in the fact that we all have an innate sense of incompletion within, and therefore a constant yearning for excellence. Some people seek excellence by proving that other people around them are not as good as they themselves are. They fight for relativistic gains, for false victories, where victory is considered in relative to someone else’s defeat - as long as some people are at the top they feel better. And thus an unending and futile tussle goes on.

But if we accept that war is unavoidable even in peace, and consider it as something integral to human nature, and all inclinations to go to war as a possibly crude expressions of something more fundamental in the mind, then we can seek ways to refine the way we fight, and also the ways we choose and appoint our opponents.

People often fight for the grab of land, in the middle of hot pursuits of financial gains and for the matters of honour and pride, but very seldom we see people fighting for the purpose of true development and improvement in their own being. People could see that winning does not always have to be attached to the presence of some loser somewhere.

I am sure that there is something in human nature that is the way out, something worth fighting for, something that does not require other people like us as ‘eternal, enemies. For example, I see within my own life that there are countless things I can improve upon, that I find so difficult to deal with, and often I give up only to crack down on other people around me, all complaining, blaming and pointing fingers. Then I realise how hard my immune system fights against foreign entities constantly saving me from falling ill. And how hard something much wiser inside my mind works to keep me sane and in good spirits. But alas! Many a feats of bravery, loyalty, efficiency, sacrifice and constant vigilance go unnoticed and unappreciated by me, who they unreservedly serve.