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Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 6:49 pm
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War, Peace, and the relation between the two. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- war [wawr] n (plural wars) 1. armed fighting between groups: a period of hostile relations between countries, states, or factions that leads to fighting between armed forces, especially in land, air, or sea battles The two countries are at war. 2. period of armed fighting: a period of armed conflict between countries or groups during the Vietnam War
Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. peace [peess] n 1. freedom from war: freedom from war, or the time when a war or conflict ends the signing of the peace agreement Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In this case, we shall speak of course of peace between or within nations as it is nations that undergo the real armed combat style war I shall refer to in this topic. Although peace is the normal default state of any relation, as the lack of conflict, it has preconditions to it's ability to remain the state of relations. Peace is only proper so long as war is not deserved. War is an extreme tool of enforcing justice. At any point where a nation or nations' government(s) commits or can be seen to be threaten to commit strong enough injustices against another nation or nation OR when a nation's government commits or can be seen to be threatening to commit strong injustices against it's own people waging war against the offender is a proper course of action. Injustices strong enough would include the violation/threat of violation of basic rights without first having committed any wrongs to merit the violaton, such as one nation threatening the very existence of another without it having done anything to the nation to deserve such first (such as how Germany was overrunning it's neighboring countries in WWII.) In these cases it is a form of self-defense, war.
Since war was waged as justice and self defense in opposition to the violation of rights , you need to be sure that each war fought the enemy is completely defeated to the best of your ability to do so in order to maintain peace. If you leave the enemy less then devastated, truly in awe of the power of the people it wronged, and go easier on your enemy then you could, they will gain neither a respect for you nor a fear of you and will have a quicker ability to be able to recover their military power then they should have and so now will just be angry(er) with you now and seek to come back and violate your rights all over again, and probably worse then before. They won't have learned their lesson or any respect and it will be you paying the price, having more injustices done to you and having to go back and fight the same people all over again.
So, preconditions of peace: respect for the rights of nations and individuals -- when this respect is not given, it's got to be forced through a war done to the best of your ability until it IS freely given and will no longer be sought to be denied. Only at this stage can peace be maintained.
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:16 am
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Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:58 pm
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Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:18 pm
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Once again, other people already said it better than me.
(Me: Peace is when you don't make war with your self or others. That's what peace is. To make war to get peace seems a little like an oxymoron now, doesn't it?)
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin (1880 - 1973)
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)
Either war is obsolete or men are. R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983),
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. Will Rogers (1879 - 1935),
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967),
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
(Me: lol, from world war to world peace, get it?)
(lol, whirled peas.)
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 5:39 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:51 pm
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War isn't a bad thing. In fact, it can be explained a fairely simple anology.
Think of a war between nations like a fight between teenagers.
If the two nations do not go to war, then they will be like two fueding little girls. They will vent their rage for each for years and years, occasionally striking at each other with small things. Pranks, stealing each other's things, backstabbing. Until eventually things get out of hand several years later, and they resolve it.
But if the nations go to war, then they will be like two boys. Instead of venting it in, they will fight each other, and vent out all of their rage all at once, solving the problem in mere seconds.
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:01 pm
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:35 pm
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I think your essential point is pretty accurate even if it does have to bring in stereotypes to get the point across. You can get a fight done out in the open, each side doing their worst, and get it all done with and a clear decision of who won usually, a real war, or else there's just so much sneaking around and back stabbing over a long period of time and it will just fester and get worse and worse. And if the initial offended party tries to not fight back in some manner, it's them that loses the worst when you have to drag things out. The "guilty party" is the initial offender, even if not by force like blowing something up per se, and can only gain. The longer the innocent ones try to refrain from fighting back against the "guilty" party the more they'll keep getting hurt, if not just outright taken over or destroyed. The guilty party can loose things when they're fought back against in attempts at retibution by those they wronged, but if the people they wronged don't fight back, they just keep gaining things for doing things they don't have the right to do in the first place.
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 8:08 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 8:25 pm
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