what are some examples of wars caused by idealism?
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We should be careful about using idealism as a single cause as there are often other motives as well. However, examples of idealism as possible contributing factor include:\n\n* US Civil War to the extent that slavery was a cause:\n\n* World War II to stop the Nazis and the Japanese.\n\nHowever, idealism should not always be taken at face value. For example, the Crusades were launched  by Pope Urban IIto free the Holy Land from Muslim rule. However, the behaviour of forces associated with the Crusades led to Pope John Paul II apologising for them in 1999.
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Probably obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).\nMost idealists do.
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lots of events have occured. (War of independance, anything like that is usually good)\n\nis it recently or a long time ago. please specify for all who come after me
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The best examples are probably in the "too too solid flesh" soliloquy.  There the distinction between earthly things and heavenly things, and the distinction between King Hamlet and Claudius.  Also, when Prince Hamlet is addressing Yorick's skull, he draws comparisons between living and dying
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I don't have the time to list them for you, but here is a site that might help some...\n\n      http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761567354/Civil_War.html#p53
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I will answer in a different way, if I may.  I do not think Ideals can be spread by military force.  Woodrow Wilson once said of WWI, that the reason he was entering was because it would be "The War to end all Wars".  Well, this ideal obviously was not true, and left many Americans disillusioned.  Skip to Vietnam, to stop the spread of communism.  Communism still spread, it had to collapse on itself, it was not defeated.  Now in Iraq, to spread Democracy.  Unfortunately, I do not think it will happen.  I am glad Saddam is out of power, he killed many people, but the Iraqis will not have a democracy unless they want one.  To be honest, even the republicans are beginning to wonder what we are doing in Iraq.  And I dont know the answer, and I dont know why no one else does.
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Political motivations start wars, not religion.\nReligion provides (im)moral support.\nThis is not to say religion is bad, quite the contrary, but that it has been historically misused to mobilize people towards war.\nAnd history keeps repeating itself.
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In their fight to create the nation of Israel zionists participated in actions against Great Britain that were they to happen today would have been considered terrorism.  The same could be said of the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolution and the Civil War.  \n\nI realize that doesn't strictly answer your question.    Here is a reference that should be useful:\nHonor and Martyrdom: Suicide Bombing Isn't as New or Alien as Westerners Imagine\n"The rate of suicide bombings - the seemingly endless supply of people prepared to blow themselves up - leaves a western audience utterly bewildered. What kind of psychology motivates people to such violent extremes? The incomprehension prompts revulsion that this form of warfare is historically unprecedented and reveals a peculiar, aberrant irrationality - a kind of inhuman madness. All too quickly, Islam is blamed for deluding its believers into martyrdom with promises of 72 virgins; the old prejudices about Islam as a faith uniquely associated with violence and unquestioning belief are fanned into life again.\n\nBut such prejudices won't get us very far in trying to unpick which elements of this violent phenomenon are in fact unprecedented and which are not - or to understand why the strategy has been adopted."
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That's hard to answer, both Christian and Islamic denominations have been responsible for large wars that killed hundreds of thousands of people.  Let's just say the world would be a more peaceful place if people didn't start wars that are motivated by religious ideology.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=theories+of+war&btnG=Google+Search
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Everyone has a different idea of what a beautiful world would be like.  I can already tell you that if you are striving for world peace, your idea will never work.  If you think world-wide peace is a possibility, then you have a seriously skewed view of reality.\n\nCooperation can and will occur when natural resources are abundant.  When resources are scarce, competition increases and you will see more conflict.\n\nBut, I am an optimist and am curious.  What are some of your ideas?
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St. Thomas does not address whether a particular war was just.  However, you can apply his principles to wars to figure it our on your own.\n\nHe discusses a just war in the Summa Theologica, Secunda Secundae, Q. 40, a., 1:\n\n"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign by whose command the war is to be waged. . . .\n\n"Secondly, a just cause is required, namely that those who are attacked, should be attacked because they deserve it on account of some fault.  . . .\n\n"Thirdly, it is necessary that the belligerents should have a rightful intention, so that they intend the advancement of good, or the avoidance of evil."
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A statement like this is broadly interpretable, like a poem. I think the most obvious would be to say that war destroys the naiveness of youth and makes those learned in it understand the world in a different way. In a sense, one is no longer delusionary.
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You can't, because conflict is sometimes a positive force.  Look at the revolutionary war.
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Well, I guess in a way if youre fighting war than that means youre starting a war against war, which means you are already contradicting yourself. The point im trying to make is it doesnt really matter what context it is in, it takes a war to start yet another.\n\nI applaud you for asking this question, but I am a lil confused as to why you did it since your ideology seems so thrown together and a little clumsy.\n\nI dont believe evil has a face. Its only a word we've constructed to seperate each other. But even if it did, are you saying that war exists because of "evil"? If thats true, than why do you feel that saying "war is wrong" is any different than saying that it is necessary?\n\nO i get it, we call that atitude nihilism - a belief that there is no point in caring because to care would mean that you think it is possible to change. But dont you think that in already saying it is impossible to change than you have already disqualified yourself from ever changing anything in the first place? \nDoesnt that whole idea go back to the "takes a war to start one" thing?
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War is when a country or a group of people within a country fight against one another with weapons. There are numerous reasons for war. Wars have been fought for independence, to expand land, because of disputes, to protect a country's independence and/or land, to gain resources, because of alliances, etc.
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Greed and selfishness are the causes.  What else can be the causes?  Leaders of those European countries want more land and money.  They want only their people to be wealthy and in power.  They want to use all the other people that they took advantage of to make more wealth and power for themselves.  (Hey, don't forget Japan was also involved in WWII.)\n\nThe consequences of those two wars are a lot of hatred between groups of people.  No one will ever forget the loss of a loved one being killed or the house that they've worked for all their lives being bombed and gone within seconds.  Wars destroy futures within seconds.  When stuff like this happens, some people don't forget which group of people or country did it to them.  So they teach their children and grandchildren how to hate the other group of people.  So much hatred in this world came from wars, esp. WWI & WWII.