Is oil really worth dying for?

Question

If so, why come the poor people are dying for oil and not the rich? After all, the poor people don't reap the rewards for obtaining the oil as much as the rich people do. For those who don't know what I'm talking about I'm talking about this war in IRAQ! Rich people dying off poor and young people's blood and getting rich on top of that. When's the last time you heard of a lot of wealthy people joining the Armed Forces? In America, if you want to be wealthy become an athlete or entertainer. Don't defend the country or save lives (Firefighter, Policeman,etc.) You'll work your whole life away, when you can make a movie and be well off after 6 months of living. If everybody stopped supporting the B.S., then they're wouldn't be the flip side of salaries and demand for society's occupational outlook. What do you think? Also, what do you think about dying for Oil?

Answer 1

Oh course. How otherwise will they smuggle in your cocaine? On Big Wheels?

Answer 2

Oil is only worth dying for if you can take it with you. So all the big fat cat oil people can just saturate their bodies prior to death and there...they take some with them. Your other concerns are legitimate. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. That's why the more educated people are the richest.
You can't possibly believe that the fatcats want more educated people! or that the developed world really wants the entire continent of Africa to become educated!! Oh the United States will send them food. The poor have to be sustained. But the best sustenance as far as the developed world is concerned is food for the stomach, not food for the mind.
Are you aware that the poor in developing countries aren't even educated enough to realize the value of their own natural resources!
That is the way the rich want them to remain.
But alas.
An example of the growing number of educated rests in Nigeria. Finally. They now know the value of THEIR own oil.
And so they rebel...
as will other countries when they realize the value of what they sit, stand, walk, run, and lie on
every single day of their lives.

Answer 3

Oil is not worth dying for ..keeping oil money out of hands of people who support things like the 9/11 is worth it By the way we are saving poor people the Kurds, folks gassed by the weapons that don't exsist.How can you be so wrapped up in class struggle I would much rather be poor in American than anything in a society that treats women as chattles, try being anything but Arabe in Saudi..that society is intorarant on a completely new level

Answer 4

Yeah, let's all quit our day jobs, make a movie in 6 months and be wealthy. What the heck was that rant about?
As for wealthy people not joining the military, Pat Tillman was pretty well off.
So, what do you think about dying because a terrorist put smallpox in the air conditioning system at the mall, or a dirty bomb at the airport, or how about dying because a terrorist put Sarin gas in our subway? Would that be preferable?
That's the reason we are trying to stabilize Iraq.
BTW - it's a volunteer army. Most of the soldiers over there sign up for more tours because they BELIEVE in what they are doing!!
How about believing in them, too?

Answer 5

WTF! Who's the idiot on here that said the world needs oil or it will collapse? Foolio don't you know the world survived before oil was useful and will afterwards if we was out today. It is true that we are over there because of the oil. Bushes plan is to take control of all that and then bust our balls by making us pay 5x times more than we should. They get richer, we get strapped for money and die. They achieve a goal and everybody seems happy. Oil is not all they are after either. It's about control of the whole world. Nothing has changed but the times. Civilizations always have had one country rule the whole world, this one is just next in line. We need to understand that this is the beginning of the end for us all. Even the Bible mentions this stuff will happen.

Answer 6

The world's economy runs on oil. Reagan knew this and understood it. That is precisely why he reflagged the foreign oil tankers passing through that region in the early 1980s -- andprovided them with armed naval escorts.
As for dying, I think Patton really hit the nail squarely on the head when he said: "You don't win wars by dying for your country. You win them, by making the OTHER poor, dumb bastard die for HIS country!"
Historically, it has always been up to the poor and underprivileged to fight the wars of the wealthy. Up until the twentieth century, even in the U.S., the wealthy could either purchase their commision or pay someone else to stand in their place, but rarely ever would you find a well-to-do, in the enlisted ranks.
The true perversity of our world, is that we underpay those who hold the key to the future and overpay those who entertain us. It is the ultimate in escapism, pay someone to help us forget about life for a while.

Answer 7

Probably not in a philosophical sense, no. But, that's not exactly what wars in the middle east are about. Oil is a strategic resource. Without it, modern technological society would grind to a halt - including the military technology that is vital to the defense of all developed countries, such as the US. Were the US effectively denied access to such a strategic resource for a protracted period it's economy would collapse and it's defensive capabilities would be severely degraded. It would eventually be left open to invasion - or subtler forms of conquest - with only the threat of atomic suicide as a deterent.

So, while a reeking black mineral oil isn't exactly worth dying for, many do find the security of thier country worth dying for.

Answer 8

Basically, you can be rich or you can be decent, is what it sounds like you're saying. Probably 90% true. You can also look at it as rich or have the possibility of happiness.

Now, as to oil, if you're not the one dying, it's worth dying for!!! And of course, it's not that simple. Oil is so integrated into our technology, lose oil and you almost lose society. Imagine hospitals with no electricity... No fuel to run the back up generators... Etc....

It's not a simple situation... and since it's muddled up by politicians, it HAS to be F'd up!

If it took oil so save my daughter's life or to keep her alive, I'd die for oil. Damn right.

Answer 9

That's the difference between you and I. I may not be rich, but at least I'm not ignorant. The "rich" that you speak of are actually just smart enough to realize that all the poor people aren't smart enough to realize what they are "fighting" for. The American government is actually what is pushing this more than anything. The U.S. government for a long long time even before this war was used to doing things by force. The 9/11 attacks just gave us more of a visible "badge" to do these things to other weaker countries.

If you think this is the first time,....try looking up Operation Ajax and you'll realize this is just history repeating itself. Difference is, Americans forget, but the victims don't and that is why we get attacked in the first place.

Answer 10

I dint think oil is worth the price of lives of Americans or Iraqis. I also have a little bit of understanding of how important oil is to everyone of us. The way of life without cheap and abundant oil is inconceivable. The alternatives to oil aren't worth the energy it would take to make it happen...So now you have terrorism and and global warming which in my opinion is code name for peak oil..

Answer 11

How much oil have you received from Iraq?
We will not get a single drop of free oil.
IRAQ IS NOT ABOUT OIL. (That's a Hoax that was started by the terrorists and our enemies.)
The US Gives.
It doesn't Take.
You are a victim of a hoax.