The full quote: “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things,” observed the British philosopher John Stuart Mill. “The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.”
Peaceniks can you INTELLIGENTLY disagree?
2007-09-02 13:07:55 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Tyranny. Totalitarianism. Loss of personal freedom. Loss of civil rights. Loss of individuality. Genocide. Socialism. Fascism. Communism.
And perhaps the worst of all, the loss of hope.
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2007-09-05 00:38:31 · answer #1 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. Can you name some of the things uglier than war?
The full quote: “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things,” observed the British philosopher John Stuart Mill. “The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.”
Peaceniks can you INTELLIGENTLY disagree?
2015-08-16 21:14:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
War Is An Ugly Thing
2016-11-07 06:45:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
oppression, rape, child abuse, hunger, cancer, mass pollution, extreme poverty...there are a lot of things uglier than war.
the second part of the quote is a little deeper though. There are things worth war. John Stuart Mill is correct in that. To have nothing that you would be willing to fight for leaves a pathetic existence not a real life at all. Oh...to have no passion or love of anything strong enough that you would trade your own life for it! What kind of life would that be?
(and actually I do prefer peace, but that does not mean that I do not see the necessity of war. This war, I would rather not talk about though.)
2007-09-06 10:28:27 · answer #4 · answered by Penny K 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
war ugly ugliest uglier war
2016-01-31 05:53:41 · answer #5 · answered by Dexter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paris Hilton. She seems to have no purpose at all.
No really. I think that apathy can be worse than war (which is why I mentioned Paris). Apathy makes life have no purpose. When we stop caring, I feel that in a way it is worse than death.
Apathy also seems to prolong war. We the people of the United States didn't seem to care about the Iraq War for some time. In fact, we don't seem to care enough to put real pressure on the government to end it.
Hatred and ignorance may start wars, but I wonder if it is apathy that allows them to continue.
2007-09-02 13:14:49 · answer #6 · answered by Too Tall Sol 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It's generally a sin to kill, but not where it's in self-defence or in the defence of a loved one's life.
Nothing is worth war, but wars are an inevitable consequence of nations not getting along in a big way.
2007-09-02 13:30:17 · answer #7 · answered by dweebken 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
of course not.
few people are so anti-war that they think all wars are unjust. they're generally conscientious objectors.
what mill is getting at is a utility calculus. war has a high cost, everyone knows that. but its cost is not infinite. there are situations which justify war because they bring about a better state for the world. world war two is the stock example people use.
the people who think that war is bad in all cases think that human life is infinitely valuable. while on initial glance, this looks admirable, it's actually nonsense. war often saves lives. at which point, the always-anti-war crowd is contradicting itself. imagine that.
sometimes war gives you diminishing returns (look at the the six day war for the arab side). but not always.
2007-09-02 13:20:24 · answer #8 · answered by brian 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The person starting the war is by far the ugliest among the two.
2007-09-02 13:19:52 · answer #9 · answered by EnigmaCA 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Not fight back enough.A la Vietnam, and the mass slaughter than the demoncrates caused!
Oh yeah people who use the f-word on yahoo answers!(Like Elaine s whom just got reported!).
2007-09-04 16:49:41 · answer #10 · answered by ak6702 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋