War has never been appreciated by common civilians of any war engaged countries. They all curse war. We all know the results of war. War can never be useful for mankind.
The soldiers are the most innocent victims of war. At the order of the authority they just engage in war with other party, against whom they possibly have no issue. Another thing that startles me is when countries or communities engage in war due to conflicts in the past, something like 'national heritage'. For example, India and Pakistan. Those soldiers at the border just fight and hate each other just because that's been the tradition. They don't even know each other , have never caused any possible harm to each other. It doesn't make sense. The initial conflicts took place even before they were born but see who is fighting! There are many other examples like, Israel and Palestine, Korea, Japan and China, etc.
Now the logical understanding . Who actually wants the war then? Most of the countries are democratic nations, that means the leaders of the nation are elected by the people (Now note, the leaders are also common people but after becoming a political leader , well, things change). War imposes threat to everyone. Why would the political leaders what war then? So logically they too should not want war but be at peace with other nations. Who else is in the country then?
The philosophical aspect of truth is always liberal. It all depends on what is accepted and believed by man as Pythagoras said,'man is the measure of all things'. War breaks out when the mismatch in ideology is so much that the survival of the opposition becomes a potential threat to the survival of the other and therefore the only way out is by gaining supremacy over the other by means of arms; complete extinction of the opponent.
Another funny thing is about war is that, a war is justified by its result. Do you think anyone would have had the guts to criticise Hitler or Nazis had they won the war? Think. Same for Saddam Hussein, Bin Laden, and others. We take the motto of the victor of the war and blame the defeated. However, there are some wars fought for independence from a foreign suppressor or ruler. I guess those are justified as right irrespective of the result. These are self-defence, it must be done.
The bottom line is, wars are not productive. The whole world suffers for the dispute of a few. The only way to not let such things occur is by inculcating universal brotherhood, love, compassion, forgiveness and value based education in practice.
The soldiers are the most innocent victims of war. At the order of the authority they just engage in war with other party, against whom they possibly have no issue. Another thing that startles me is when countries or communities engage in war due to conflicts in the past, something like 'national heritage'. For example, India and Pakistan. Those soldiers at the border just fight and hate each other just because that's been the tradition. They don't even know each other , have never caused any possible harm to each other. It doesn't make sense. The initial conflicts took place even before they were born but see who is fighting! There are many other examples like, Israel and Palestine, Korea, Japan and China, etc.
Now the logical understanding . Who actually wants the war then? Most of the countries are democratic nations, that means the leaders of the nation are elected by the people (Now note, the leaders are also common people but after becoming a political leader , well, things change). War imposes threat to everyone. Why would the political leaders what war then? So logically they too should not want war but be at peace with other nations. Who else is in the country then?
The philosophical aspect of truth is always liberal. It all depends on what is accepted and believed by man as Pythagoras said,'man is the measure of all things'. War breaks out when the mismatch in ideology is so much that the survival of the opposition becomes a potential threat to the survival of the other and therefore the only way out is by gaining supremacy over the other by means of arms; complete extinction of the opponent.
Another funny thing is about war is that, a war is justified by its result. Do you think anyone would have had the guts to criticise Hitler or Nazis had they won the war? Think. Same for Saddam Hussein, Bin Laden, and others. We take the motto of the victor of the war and blame the defeated. However, there are some wars fought for independence from a foreign suppressor or ruler. I guess those are justified as right irrespective of the result. These are self-defence, it must be done.
The bottom line is, wars are not productive. The whole world suffers for the dispute of a few. The only way to not let such things occur is by inculcating universal brotherhood, love, compassion, forgiveness and value based education in practice.
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