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RE: Sounds familiar
By Christopher1 on 3/1/2008 4:12:24 AM , Rating: 1
Four extremely good points. The real thing that we should be moving toward is a world where war is abhorred and that anyone who talks about starting a 'war' is immediately thrown into the closest mental health ward or prison that we can find, military person or not.

War will not have to be a 'reality of the future' if we stop allowing people to convince us that war is necessary, which in almost all cases it is not necessary. The only 'war' in the past 100 years that I personally believe was necessary and just was World War II. Then, we were fighting a country whose leaders had fooled their people into mass murdering another group of people, and we actually needed to get rid of those leaders.

RE: Sounds familiar

isn't that place called the White House?

RE: Sounds familiar
By brenatevi on 3/1/2008 8:08:25 PM , Rating: 2
You are neglecting the social, economic, and environmental pressures that are the driving forces behind war. Consider the "freshwater problem," where certain areas are drought ridden, and just over the border is a nice river that could provide all of the water that they need. Said political entity asks its neighbor nicely for access to the river, but they decline. What is a political entity to do? They have to think about the health of their citizens, and one way to get access to the water is to invade their neighbor and take the land that would give them water by force.

"But the neighbor could have just given them access." The thing about that is the river might not be able to sustain the citizens of both political entities. So who has the right to decide? How do you decide which citizens live and die? Looking at the situation dispassionately, you could say the war decides, and war might possibly thin out the populations enough that the river can sustain both political entities.

Worldwide, we talk about population pressure, how there aren't enough resources to sustain all of the people. So here's a question for you: how do you get rid of all of the "excess" people? Are you going to pick and choose?

Basically, when you get down to it, Life is ROUGH. Life is a struggle at all levels, not just for humans. Just watch a nature show for evidence. To think that the struggle, that war is going to go away just because it's "Insane" is to ignore that fact.

