If War Is Not The Answer, Then What Is?

[jubilee1919]

good and evil people same. all human thoughts and actions are motivated by self-interest.

That is true but here I am referring more to bro chuckyworld's question which is "Can an honest man be evil? or can he do evil while being honest?"

My response was directed more towards this than about what motivates a person. Let me elaborate here.

For example, the state executioner that is paid to execute criminals. He is performing his job conscientiously believing what he does is right. Another one, the President did not issue a stay of execution of someone in death row believing that he is doing the right thing.

 

[Agoraphobic]

All I can say is war sucks. For all our development and progress, we are still very violent and, for lack of a better word, barbaric. Despite our gory history, leaders of communities still resort to drawing arms to resolve conflict. From the lay people I have come across, it is the veterans of war that are more vocal against it. The young and brash seem to think they can better deal with the harshness of war. Society is strange, those pro-disarmament get labeled as cissy peaceniks. Maybe world leadership should be turned over to women - there may be less violence then.

Cheers!

If we, as individuals know and have the conviction that war is not acceptable, what are the ways in which we can help to avert it? We all do not want a war, that is a given.

As a society and a nation of peoples that abhor wars and seek to prevent any outbreak that affects us, individually we have to do something about it. We have to spread to those whom we are in contact with and influence them that intolerance of the others' race, colour, religion and culture will only stoke the fires of hatred.

War expresses man's inhumanity to their own kind, their environment and the antithesis of humanism.

I leave this video of the recent Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip as a reminder to us the realities of war. They can be Muslims, terrorists and of a different race and cultures, but they are alos like us, humans and they do not want war...........................

 

[chuckyworld]

All I can say is war sucks. For all our development and progress, we are still very violent and, for lack of a better word, barbaric. Despite our gory history, leaders of communities still resort to drawing arms to resolve conflict. From the lay people I have come across, it is the veterans of war that are more vocal against it. The young and brash seem to think they can better deal with the harshness of war. Society is strange, those pro-disarmament get labeled as cissy peaceniks. Maybe world leadership should be turned over to women - there may be less violence then.

Cheers!

I second your suggestion, women are more calm and collect not easily prone to violent,men are too violent.....

 

[Sunstreaker]

That is true but here I am referring more to bro chuckyworld's question which is "Can an honest man be evil? or can he do evil while being honest?"

My response was directed more towards this than about what motivates a person. Let me elaborate here.

For example, the state executioner that is paid to execute criminals. He is performing his job conscientiously believing what he does is right. Another one, the President did not issue a stay of execution of someone in death row believing that he is doing the right thing.

the president did it because it's the law. it might be wrong for whatever reasons but the president has to put aside his values and principles for realism. the president might be able to give a pardon to the death row person but choose not to do it because it's against his political self-interests to do it.

self-interests and greed motivates a person above everything else..

a honest man can be perceived as despicable/evil by some people whenever there is a conflict of interest. is it a matter of perception ?

 

[jubilee1919]

the president might be able to give a pardon to the death row person but choose not to do it because it's against his political self-interests to do it.

self-interests and greed motivates a person above everything else..

Then he is not an honest person the subject of which we are discussing on.

 

[jubilee1919]

a honest man can be perceived as despicable/evil by some people whenever there is a conflict of interest. is it a matter of perception ?

Here I think you have not gotten the point. An honest person is one who is honest to himself, not seen as honest by others. Can he do evil while at the same time being honest. I said yes and gave examples.

There had been good and honest people who were doing evil things without being aware of it was wrong. When they came to realise the wrongs they did in the past, they killed themselves because they could not accept it.

 

[jubilee1919]

All I can say is war sucks. For all our development and progress, we are still very violent and, for lack of a better word, barbaric. Despite our gory history, leaders of communities still resort to drawing arms to resolve conflict. From the lay people I have come across, it is the veterans of war that are more vocal against it. The young and brash seem to think they can better deal with the harshness of war. Society is strange, those pro-disarmament get labeled as cissy peaceniks. Maybe world leadership should be turned over to women - there may be less violence then.

Cheers!

All true bro. Women are much better than war-mongering men whose egos are bigger than their nation.

 

[Conqueror]

The burgeoning world population will soon reach the 10 billion mark in the next few years. Should this trend continue bearing in mind earth's limited resources which has been depleted severely?

"Peace is not a natural state of society," he writes, "any more than war is a natural state of society.

Will a peaceful world be the answer?

War has always been the catalyst of change and the SUDDEN surge of technological advancement within a short span of time. Like the Shinden by the Imperial Japanese ? The first jet engine was mounted in the fuselage instead of the two wings. The German one was mounted on the two wings.

There's always a time for everything. Fighting is natural just as sex is natural.


3 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.


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[jubilee1919]

War has always been the catalyst of change and the SUDDEN surge of technological advancement within a short span of time. Like the Shinden by the Imperial Japanese ? The first jet engine was mounted in the fuselage instead of the two wings. The German one was mounted on the two wings.

There's always a time for everything. Fighting is natural just as sex is natural.

Let's hope it will not come to the point where we destroy the world we live in while attempting eliminate each other. That will be the end of the human race.

 

[Kinana]

War is not the answer. Jesus is the answer. Jesus is love and Jesus is real.