Why do we need wars?

Yeah, you see the thing with war is...

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When people disagree they are sometimes willing to fight to the death for their beliefs.Palax

and to end the others...

When people disagree they are sometimes willing to fight to the death for their beliefs.Palax

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon"
Napoleon Bonaparte

"An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind"
Mahatma Gandhi

"Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object"
Abraham Lincoln

Without the Cold War and the subsequent efforts made into creating war-like simulations we wouldn't have video games.
Buffalo_Soulja

You know what, I somehow agree with this statement. :o

Cause people are greedy.

Without the Cold War and the subsequent efforts made into creating war-like simulations we wouldn't have video games.
Buffalo_Soulja

WE'd have video games about rainbows and flowers and stars. Oh, the humanity! Wait, thats just mario...

[QUOTE="Buffalo_Soulja"]Without the Cold War and the subsequent efforts made into creating war-like simulations we wouldn't have video games.
jaybobi92

WE'd have video games about rainbows and flowers and stars. Oh, the humanity! Wait, thats just mario...

Human greed

if everything is not enough.......take nothing

Because the leaders always want to gain something through war.. This can be honour, oil, more land etc. So.. If we stop people from wanting anything, we would have peace!

In other words..

World peace, comrade?

Because the leaders always want to gain something through war.. This can be honour, oil, more land etc. So.. If we stop people from wanting anything, we would have peace!

In other words..

World peace, comrade?

J-link

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Because the leaders always want to gain something through war.. This can be honour, oil, more land etc. So.. If we stop people from wanting anything, we would have peace!

In other words..

World peace, comrade?

wemhim

Yes, well.. I was not being serious :P

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Because the leaders always want to gain something through war.. This can be honour, oil, more land etc. So.. If we stop people from wanting anything, we would have peace!

In other words..

World peace, comrade?

J-link

Yes, well.. I was not being serious :P

Communism is the way forward. If every single country was commie, the somunists would have nobody to fight, and at least the poor people can be starve to death in peace-time.jaybobi92

It's not that we need them it's that people vote the wrong people into office. How Bush is President I can't understand. This is the best the U.S. can do? No really, is it? I personally feel Bush and Republicans in general for the most part have secret agendas. Bush wants the oil. He starts an illegal war that the whole world was against, still against, even our allies are against it, and now look at the pathetic progress that has been made in such a long time. Now whoever gets into office next hopefully can patch this mess up. It won't change the fact that the blood is already on Bushs hands though.SuperMaWiiOH

War is just another slice of the pie...which happens to make peace more enjoyable.

[QUOTE="jaybobi92"]Communism is the way forward. If every single country was commie, the somunists would have nobody to fight, and at least the poor people can be starve to death in peace-time.wemhim

I got hit in the eye eith a rock once. It really hurt.

[QUOTE="wemhim"][QUOTE="jaybobi92"]Communism is the way forward. If every single country was commie, the somunists would have nobody to fight, and at least the poor people can be starve to death in peace-time.jaybobi92

I got hit in the eye eith a rock once. It really hurt.

Humans are naturally violent. The only reason why war is so bad now is because the human brain has evolved in such a way to create the means to destroy eachother with bullets and bombs instead of sticks and stones. The universal massing of ideas and concepts has practicaly forced people into different trains of thought which then evolved into towns, then into regions, then countries. The people in country A don't think the same about everything as the people in country B; if deplomicy fails then the two nations go to war.

Or hitler and saddam happen...

Humans are naturally violent. The only reason why war is so bad now is because the human brain has evolved in such a way to create the means to destroy eachother with bullets and bombs instead of sticks and stones. The universal massing of ideas and concepts has practicaly forced people into different trains of thought which then evolved into towns, then into regions, then countries. The people in country A don't think the same about everything as the people in country B; if deplomicy fails then the two nations go to war.

Or hitler and saddam happen...

Humans are naturally violent. The only reason why war is so bad now is because the human brain has evolved in such a way to create the means to destroy eachother with bullets and bombs instead of sticks and stones. The universal massing of ideas and concepts has practicaly forced people into different trains of thought which then evolved into towns, then into regions, then countries. The people in country A don't think the same about everything as the people in country B; if deplomicy fails then the two nations go to war.

Or hitler and saddam happen...

M1Hunter66

"War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to face it." Mussolini

By the way I completely disagree with his statement but it seems this line of reasoning is what the TC was touching upon. I don't see how humans benefit from fighting on a battlefield where they are arbitrarily obliterated by laser guided missles.

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[QUOTE="wemhim"][QUOTE="jaybobi92"]Communism is the way forward. If every single country was commie, the somunists would have nobody to fight, and at least the poor people can be starve to death in peace-time.wemhim

I got hit in the eye eith a rock once. It really hurt.

Dammit Sir, thats suicide! We'll get hit for sure! WE're not playing games; innocent men could getbruised out there. My Captain got cut in the arm last week - it still stings him now when he goes in water.