War Is Stupid!
By Pivotfarm
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War? That splendid means of conflict (armed, please) between at least two nations for a multitude of reasons. It could be because one of those countries is jealous, or in love, even with the other that doesn’t want to give up its virgin land to be raped. Perhaps war might take place for hate, because the skin of the opponents (commonly called the enemy) is not quite the same color (so the people there can’t be people, because people are always our color if they are to be called people and not subjugated into second-class ranking). Perhaps, it might take (albeit sometimes publically only) to spread our form of government in the west (we call know that the others envy our form of democracy and that they want to secretly be like us). War is waged because of all of these reasons and also because we just want to. It’s like stealing. People don’t just steal out of necessity; they do it because they feel like doing it even if they don’t need it. 25% of people will actually just steal because they get a rush from it; it’s a fix, adrenaline from the fear of being caught. War has little positive effect and even more rarely on the civilian population in the war zone.
Do we go to war because our populations have grown far greater than it is reasonably possibly for us to live together? Or do we find in that desire to wage war on our neighbors as some glowing spark of the past inside us that made us thrive on animal tendencies or sexual and territorial competition to perpetuate our species? Perhaps Marxist theories were correct, espousing the belief that man wages war only due to the attempt to gain control of resources in the imperialistic and capitalistic system in which we evolve. Thomas Malthus believed that we would also wage war because resources were being eaten away at by the poor (who incidentally, should be allowed just to die). The Youth Bulge theory in the pyramid of ages shows that when there is a large number of growingly unhappy cohort of male youths that are unable to find work due to lack of economic activity, then it is grounds for that group evolving into a pool of violence that will ultimately end in war.
Whatever the reasons we have and we will go to war for, there have been many stupid wars in the past. We don’t need to mention George W. Bush and his ridiculous invention of the reasons to wage war in the Middle East and his responsibility in the matter for most of the instability that has ensued in that region. If only those that had voted for him had voted for someone else to change the course of history. If only those that had falsified the votes, had been arrested in thrown in jail before he was declared President.
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