sm0k1t
03-06-2007, 08:58 PM
I had a tought on the existence of violence and the desire of expansion or at the limit of global domination. Since the dawn of man there have been wars of different types: for territory, prestige, honor, survival etc
I am a pacifist and I do hope for world peace to happen someday but its not on the verge of happening and it probably wont ever happen unless humans are instinct =P but still... we can say that since it exist and is kinda part of our whole history...there is maybe a purpose to war? Or do we create a purpose so to speek?
For me,the problem with war is not war itself, its the technologie used in war..the lost of honor and valor in combat when (in the dark ages) we use weapons and armor against peasants with forks...(in the modern society) we use planes and bombs and all other technology that were unaccessible for other countries and so on....but it is normal to aim for advantages like this to be victorious. So, maybe we need a certain code of honor for war (wich does exist now but its kinda vague...its like dont kill the innocent or the unarmed but you can throw a bomb to kill the enemies knowing they have no chance of survival or to even speak...surrender maybe.)
anyway...returning to swords, bows and armors would be a way to make possible the respect of a code of honor but it still wont stop some attrocities of war and we can erase the technological knowledge so the use of firearms and bombs will be use by one side or the other even if its forbidden in war someday...
wow this is going nowhere so ill stop with 1 question that puts a good or bad purpose of war..
If there were no wars at all throughout history...imagine what impacts, changes or basicly how it would be today?
overpopulated earth...perhaps
I am a pacifist and I do hope for world peace to happen someday but its not on the verge of happening and it probably wont ever happen unless humans are instinct =P but still... we can say that since it exist and is kinda part of our whole history...there is maybe a purpose to war? Or do we create a purpose so to speek?
For me,the problem with war is not war itself, its the technologie used in war..the lost of honor and valor in combat when (in the dark ages) we use weapons and armor against peasants with forks...(in the modern society) we use planes and bombs and all other technology that were unaccessible for other countries and so on....but it is normal to aim for advantages like this to be victorious. So, maybe we need a certain code of honor for war (wich does exist now but its kinda vague...its like dont kill the innocent or the unarmed but you can throw a bomb to kill the enemies knowing they have no chance of survival or to even speak...surrender maybe.)
anyway...returning to swords, bows and armors would be a way to make possible the respect of a code of honor but it still wont stop some attrocities of war and we can erase the technological knowledge so the use of firearms and bombs will be use by one side or the other even if its forbidden in war someday...
wow this is going nowhere so ill stop with 1 question that puts a good or bad purpose of war..
If there were no wars at all throughout history...imagine what impacts, changes or basicly how it would be today?
overpopulated earth...perhaps