I am heart broken to see what people do to eachother, just thought I might make some people think. Desperate optimist!
2007-12-21 05:25:15 · 19 answers · asked by JJ 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I think that George Bush could answer this question. I can`t.
2007-12-21 06:22:44 · answer #1 · answered by john c 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
People do not kill for peace. People kill for freedom.
Some people kill because they think their religion is the only one that should exist and others kill because they think that their race is the only race that should exist. There is hatred all over the world.
I am sorry to say it but it is true. There are some of us that just want to live in a peaceful world and be free to do it but there is always someone in this world telling us how we are going to do things and how we are going to live. Even in a free society there are always new laws that take away a person personal freedom. At times when they do this then some may rebel exist such laws and say they are taking away our freedom.
There is always someone that has some sort of complaint about something and it usually messes it up for the ones that just want to live.
This is Christmas time and now we cannot have any nativity things on lawns, etc. because certain people say they do not believe so they should not have to look at it. But what about the ones that want to see it. Their rights are taken away because of a few. The U.S. is taking away more and more of our personal rights because of the minority not wanting it and it used to be that the majority won but not any more. They have taken away our prayers in public and this was a nation Built under God. There are more and more Children in our school systems that are becoming atheist and someday maybe there will be no God in the US at all. maybe it will be forbidden to even speak the name because of this minority.
You ask why if we seek peace, why do people kill for it? Well when your rights are taken away and your free will is taken away then there comes a point that you fight for what you believe in or it will all be taken away from you. How can we have peace without freedom? I too am heart broken to see this world the way it is but without God there will never be any peace
2007-12-21 14:03:40 · answer #2 · answered by craft painter 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I'm a desperate optimist, too. And I feel the same way you do. I just don't understand why or how anybody would even want to take away the peace and freedom of a another person because doing that only threatens your own. It makes no sense to me. If what they want is peace then why don't they just let others be? We should allow others to have their differences, because variety is the spice of life. And we have more than enough similarities to cement us together as Human Beings.
2007-12-21 13:33:59 · answer #3 · answered by kj 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It may seem like a paradox but think about it like this. Lets say we had two societies one was filled with peace, and the other one was filled with people who did crimes like commiting murder and rape and stealing. One day the violent society is low on resources, because they have wasted theres and decide to go after the peaceful society and take their resources using violent force. Since the peaceful society does not believe in fighting they do not resist and all of their resources are stolen, and because of that they die off. The violent society would die off too though, since they do not think of anything except for using violence as a way of solving problems. Point of the story: in a way there has to be violence and peace in order for there to be a balance in society. There will never be a time when the world is at complete peace, and there will never be a time where there is nothing but violence in the world ( even though there is alot of it now).
2007-12-21 13:35:33 · answer #4 · answered by John W 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It isn't the good people that fight for peace that cause this. It is the bad people that do not want it. There is an old saying "you cannot reason with unreasonable people." In other words we can't sit down at the table and just talk our problems out. The people that don't want peace can't be dealt with through people means. Our only choice then becomes to destroy them. It is unfortunate, but extremists are the ones that cause this. Not those who want peace.
2007-12-21 13:34:03 · answer #5 · answered by Slappy 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
people justify killing for the goal of peace, saying that the ends are more important then the means. But really though, peace can be attained without killing each other... because all we have to do is just stop. Unfotrunatly though, there are so many motivations and temptations in this world for us to be bad that we continue killing to try and advance our agenda. It saddens me as well.
2007-12-21 13:28:34 · answer #6 · answered by Give Peace A Chance 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is sad. The funny thing is we all disagree on what peace should actually be. Here's the ironic part, we all agree on what chaos is. And I really believe that if we worked toward a chaotic peace (if there is even such a thing) we would be better off. Sort of like a happy medium.
2007-12-21 17:33:55 · answer #7 · answered by King of Biscuits 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because some people do not seek peace, they seek power and they feel power is worth killing for.
2007-12-21 13:33:22 · answer #8 · answered by John 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
***True Peace is not a process as in "the peace process"
>>Peace is a QUALITY!
>>>We are either peaceful or were not!
>>>We are either working to be peaceful or not, PEACE LIKE LOVE , cannot be legislated!
>>> I am not talking of perfection, but of what really dominates in us ---peace or violence!
>>COUNTRIES, when it comes to settling matters with other nations have never really practiced true peace, as a quality!
>>>THAT IS WHY feuds always remain festering, because true peace was not practiced!
>>>SO THEN because every nation that has existed were more or less interested in power over each other RATHER THAN the quality of peace between each other---
>>>>WE HAVE a pseudo-peace or in modern terms "the peace process", WHICH INDEED is not peace!
>>To illustrate: a friend of mine & I were walking up a dead end road with 2 dobermans in the driveway of a house, we were engaged in a volunteer work!(this is not to blow our horn as to our qualities, or indicate that we are something special)
>>A woman comes out of her house in total amazement because she said usually the dogs react very aggressive to anyone approaching her house.
>>>HER STATEMENT was you must be very peaceful people, for them not to react aggressively. Apparently the dogs sensed our spirit or attitude was dominated by peace!
>>EARLY CHRISTIANS practiced the true "quality" of peace after their leader Christ and continued to with no conflicts for about 100 years or more even through the rabid persecution by the Romans!
>>THAT IS WHY Christ could say:
(John 14:26-27) “. . .. 27 I leave YOU peace, I give you MY PEACE (my caps) I do not give it to YOU the way that the world gives it. Do not let YOUR hearts be troubled nor let them shrink for fear.”
>>AND THE FACT that nothing humans could or would do detracted from the total and unperverted peace he practiced and taught, thus he could say:
(John 16:33) “. . .I have said these things to YOU that by means of me YOU may have peace. In the world YOU are having tribulation, but take courage! I have conquered the world.””
>>Mahatma Gandhi's comment on Christs quality of peace when he said in a discussion:
*** gh chap. 4 p. 30 par. 2 A Practical Guide to True Happiness ***
As an example, there is the following report in Treasury of the Christian Faith by S. J. Corey concerning a conversation between the Hindu leader Mahatma Gandhi and the former British Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin:
>>“Lord Irwin paid a visit to the Mahatma in his ashram. During the conversation Lord Irwin put this question to his host: ‘Mahatma, as man to man, tell me what you consider to be the solution to the problems of your country and mine.’ Taking up a little book from the nearby lampstand, Gandhi opened it to the fifth chapter of Matthew and replied, ‘When your country and mine shall get together on the teachings laid down by Christ in this Sermon on the Mount, we shall have solved the problems not only of our countries but those of the whole world.’ That from a Hindu!”
***OBVIOUSLY that is not about to happen!
--WHEN THE so-called christian, Constantine started his state Christianity in about 325 A.D.
it was not with the peace that Christ taught, no matter what label he put on it, because he practiced violence in forcing people to convert---thus he practiced "the peace-process", with all its hypocrisy!
>>THUS WE do not have the quality of peace today, that Jesus showed and passed on to his disciples---in religion but the Constantine psuedo-peace functioning in all the so-called Christian nations today!
--SO THEN the type of peace practiced in the world by all the nations & most of mankind is indeed, not the peace that Jesus demonstrated & taught!
--THAT INDEED is why things of peace are frustrating, and indeed are desperate, because we do not see the "scene of the world" changing toward true peace measures, there are always strings attached, and most of them have to do with power!
2007-12-21 17:38:01 · answer #9 · answered by thomas_tutoring2002 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because sometimes people try to take your life, or your freedom from you. So, unless you want to just roll over and let them kill you, you defend yourself. But hey, in the name of peace, just roll over and die, right? Wrong. In a perfect world, nobody would try to take from anyone else and we would not have to defend. And in a perfect world, noone would attack first, and noone would have to defend.
2007-12-21 13:29:57 · answer #10 · answered by Gorgeous 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
People don't fight for peace, they fight for what the changes they wants and the things they believe in.
2007-12-21 13:29:58 · answer #11 · answered by Squee! 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋