War is the Leveler of Social Ideas.?
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Viet Nam fits this?  Despite superior resources etc the Americans (and French prior to this) were whupped by chinks with sticks assuming the moral high ground
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Given that so many wars have started, and continue because of religious beliefs, I would say religion is extremely important in society.  Anything that can evoke the kind of passion necessary to maintain the level of intensity needed to sustain a war is important.
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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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It never will get better, wars in particularly are fought due to money. i.e "oil,gold,land" , even religon, thats how the U.S.A was founded, it would be nice to see the world unite for a common cause, if it was not for fighting we would not be here today. wars have helped the technology improve even if it is to cause devastation, also created thousands of jobs, also believe it or not, it helps the economy
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"War and the Pursuit of Happiness.."\n\nWARS are needed as a natural part of human evolution. When you look at war from a long-range perspective, it becomes clear that, as destructive as wars are, their very destructiveness has served as the primary force for the evolution of the human race. By mercilessly elimnating those who were unable to survive in the theater of war, wars resulted in a constant upgrading of both the physiological and intellectual acuity of man.\n\nAlthough many bright people perish in wars, the preponderance of the casualties occur among people with the limited intellectual capacity to understand the mechanics of wars and who are thus unable to avoid becoming casualties.\n\nWho would seriosly dispute the fact that smart people have higher living standards than intellectually less endowed persons do? War elimnates the intellectually less fit and thus, in the end, raises the average intelligence and the living standards of society as a whole.\n\nThroughout the ages, evolution took advantage of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, war, natural disasters, disease and famine.\n\nIf we succeed in eliminating armies and war, we are also eliminating war in its capacity as a powerful contributor to evolution by keeping the world population in check. We are now at 6 billion humans, scientific projections of growth predict 10 billion within 50 years...mostly in under developed countries. Humanity will reach the limits of available resources at 9-12 billion..this is not sustainable.\n\nWe can only speculate as to which path evolution will take in reducing the world from 10 to 3 billion. A battle for resources will favor those with higher levels of intelligence and rationality. Evolution never receds to irrationality, superstition and stupidity.
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It might work for some situations, but for many world conflicts, "no." A lot of the world violence problems are power issues...not differences in belief systems...either the desire to have power/control over others or the desire to attain wealth/power.
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Wars can lead to more resouces, like money, land, oil, etc. It also can overthrow power and reestablish power, as the American Revolution and Civil War was. Boudica's war was about power and revenge, the Crusades were about power and religion.
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never war. there are personalities that are only good for war. send them in covertly. i like the idea to send in psycho muti life senence inmates in. arm em to the teeth & drop em into the palaces of whoever attacked us.
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I think that the IDEA of making or increasing peace is attractive to everybody, but people have different ideas about how it can be done.\n\nA lot of people feel that the reason for the failure of wars like Vietnam or Iraq, is that insufficient troops were applied at an early stage. It's pretty frustrating, when they see such an obvious route to success, to hear all sorts of politicians shilly-shallying about the options. Some citizens will see even the 'hawks' in the government as indecisive and weak, so the idea of 'peaceniks' is just from a different planet!\n\nWorld War Two involved the commitment of ALL forces, and the active support of the ENTIRE population, and plenty of people are nostalgic about those days and about the feelings of national unity that existed. (The usual interpretation of WW2 is that the Allies won; in fact, many historians say that the Axis lost; mainly by disastrously attempting to invade Russia)\n\nThere is also a trend in modern society, to think of 'being duped' as more of a crime than cheating or bullying is. This idea ('don't be a mug!') has always been around, but is becoming more dominant at the moment (for example, new gameshows often focus on 'creative dishonesty' as the route to success). To anybody who supports military intervention, the idea that 'being weak' and 'saying please' can be more effective than applying strong compulsion, can be seen as deeply insulting.\n\nIn the US (with its Pioneer history, and conflict with Britain, and role in the Cold War) sensitivity about 'naive' methods of solving problems can be easy to trigger. Colt used to make a revolver called 'The Peacemaker'.\n\nIn families, disagreements over these kinds of principled matters can last for generations, and are very difficult to resolve. There may not be a solution that does not involve one side 'giving in' to the other's argument. Even if this happened, the 'victorious' side can still harbour a suspicion that the 'defeated' party is shamming.\n\nIt may be that all you can do is keep talking to them, and bearing their lack of grace, in the hope that a message of family unity may be slowly getting through.
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Almost all wars involve economic resorces. Ideological subplots abound, however it's mostly resources. The command economy of the Soviet Union was incompatable with the modified free markets in the U.S. and Western Europe.  The arms race was significant but it was only an extension of the economic warfare.
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All wars have hidden agendas.
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military is a tool. like a hammer, its used for force when all other options are exhausted. origonally it was strictly for defense only. war is profitable to the few who have the power & authority to wage it. entangling alliances is always the excuse to get into war, profit is the motive. somehow we strayed from individual liberty to a proactive intrusionist mentality.
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:}\nGathers and shares ideas reduces differences caused by not knowing
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peace is, in my opinion, a metaphor for what we might think as being buddy buddy w/ others. that will probably never be the complete case w/ iraq.  i think that we will become somewhat understanding and that some ppl will always be bitter towards us, which is the case w/ the world, but we r already in there and need to help them get through the tough times that they are having
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You can think of a war as a really big bar fight.  A couple people fight over something and it escalates to the parking lot.  The next morning they have a vague idea on what they fought about but they really remember how much they hate that other guy, so tensions last for a bit after that.  Eventually they have a beer together and have a good laugh.  They laugh how they can't believe how they fought over [insert one of the following: girl, oil, land, or religion]
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I've heard both sides of this story from many facets. The truth is that only leaders and rulers start wars, not the people who work and raise their families. There is something wrong with this "world view" isn't there?
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Language shapes the way you think. It is what sets man apart from the other animals. It is the glue that holds society together because without communication there is no society. \n\nI'm not sure what angle you are asking from, but those are my thoughts.