Is war ever a good thing?

Question

Or are the "just" or "necessary" wars?

Thoughts?

Answer 1

I'd like to think the Revolutionary War helped some people out.

Answer 2

War is a in grained in us as humans. It is a survive thing from the beginning. It started with individuals competing over food and shelter then with clans and groups and worked its way up major battles then wars. War are fought over land, water, religion etc.
Today it is just part of us for the same reason for the most part. As population increases more wars will be in our future.
Necessity, I don't know but its been with us since the beginning of man and it will be with us until the end of mankind.

Answer 3

"Those who live by the sword will die by the sword." This is a two sided remark as well. Isn't it safe to say for the past 2000+ years the Islamists have lived by the sword with the "convert or kill" teachings of their religion? A man enters your home and threatens your family and your way of life. Will you try to reason with the killer or defend your family? You are on the opposite side of the street and you see an elderly woman being robbed at knifepoint, would you raise up and defend her fighting back her assailant or just turn your back and watch her die? These are the same reasons for war. Ask those invaded by Germany, Japan, and Italy durring WWII if there was a reason to fight. Ask those who survived the Saddam assault back in the 90's in Kuwait.

Give peace a chance, but at what cost? I'm not willing to sit by and allow others to step on me or my family. I am not willing to sit idle as I watch the world around me collaps. How can you give peace a chance when you cannot find peace anywhere? We have idiots in the US continuously fighting a moronic race battle fueled by idiots on both sides. Europe has all but given up on itself, Israel has given up parts of it's land at the will of the UN. There is a war brewing to the likes nobody has ever seen.

War is not a good thing nobody wants to see another die (at least no rasional person wants this). But you must defend what you have and what you are. Self preservation and the preservation of your family should be a battle worth fighting.

Answer 4

War is never a good thing! Rulers of old civilizations use to declare war on their weaker neighbors so their supply of food and water resources would be theirs, providing they won the war. This extra land, food and water enabled the attacker to expand his own nation, and brought in additional captured enemy to be used for slaves. The captured women were used as entertainment for the soldiers who had fought the wars.

The offspring, or children of the defeated nation were either adopted into new families, used as slaves or eliminated, depending upon their ages upon being captured. The older the youth, the quicker they would be put to death, as they would grow up seeking revenge against the ruling party for killing or enslaving their parents.

Wars now a days are fought because someone, somewhere, feels that a certain enemy has taken something away from them that they felt was theirs, or for greed, such as oil or other natural resources.

Wars are never any good, all they do is create death, destruction and humilation for the loser. Why not have a simple game of chess to decide who is the right party or the wrong party in dealing with international problems?

only those individuals who have not ever been engaged in actual combat with an enemy force will want to go to war, maybe its a macho thing. But once they are engaged in actual combat, and can see just what war does do to the human body and the mind, they return home(if they are lucky) and never want to have to experience such a living horror ever again, in fact, most will speak out against going to war, over anything, once they themselves have experienced it.

The American economy has always thrived on wars, especially when there is a depression, with thousands of unemployed people available, then the leaders of this great country decide that what they need to make the country stronger is to declare war on someone, anyone, just so long as they think ahead of time that they can beat that enemy, hands down! Where the problem arises is when that 'enemy' doesn't bend as quickly as our leaders want them to, then as past history shows, the American People become engaged in a long drawn out war. Korea, Vietnam and now, Iraq!

Sane and civilized races avoid going to war at all costs!

Thank you,

Answer 5

If the only remedy to evil is war, then war is absolutely just. If a state invades and dominates neighboring states, commits genocide against persons deemed undesirable, and does not respond to economic and diplomatic solutions, then it would be unjust NOT to wage war on this state in order to correct that injustice.

If a state commits genocide within its own borders and does not respond to economic and diplomatic solutions, then it would be unjust NOT to wage war on thsi state in order to correct that injustice.

The rule of law is absolutely meaningless without the threat of punishment upon the transgression of that law.

Answer 6

Life is based on struggle and competition so wars are inevitable. A just or necessary war is one which is in the interest of my group so that it's survival is assured and it's subjugation is avoided.

Answer 7

War created the United States, stopped the spread of fascism in Europe, stopped Japanese imperialism in Asian, stopped slaverly throughout the world, stopped piracy, and probably saved millions of innocent lives.

Answer 8

"The only thing necessary for the truimph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." - Sir Edmund Burke
"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the evil that is in it, but because of those whou REFUSE to do nothing about it." -Albert Einstein
"For those who have never fought for it, the taste of freedom is quite different for those who have." -Capt Robert Howard
"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.- J.R.R. Tolkien

I think this says enough and says it best.

Answer 9

If it were not for WWII we may not of gotten out of the Great Depression. However the current war that we are in is nothing but a great hassle. It is pointless.

Answer 10

Well I would submit the Civil War was good from the stand point of the slaves.....