This Last week I saw a
video on youtube (below) that heartened me to ask this question on 'yahoo answers'. Review
my question and the answers, (also below) you can vote on the best answer by following this
link:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20080530071903AAOUVEB
Hmmm.... I wonder why
there were so few responses... Maybe, it's one of those questions that have no
answers.
thinkingblue.blogspot.com
This is a perplexing question I know, but
is it really? It seems to me that war never benefits anyone, just maybe the
corporations eager for profits that warring will fortify. Most people suffer
and are devastated by war. Wouldn't it be a nicer world if war was never an
option? No matter who was doing the saber rattling. When such a country
displays a maddening eagerness to start one; The rest of the global community
ostracizes this nation, rendering it isolated from any rewards until it comes
around to a peaceful solution. Doesn't that sound so simple and applicable?
Will it take a nuclear war to arrive at this simple solution? It seems that is
what it's going to take for our world to become peaceful. Destroy it first
then pick up the pieces and start again... thinkingblue.blogspot.com
ANSWER 1
Unfortunately, I agree with that last assessment of what it might take. I am
of the opinion that human beings lie to themselves for their very definition.
We are not usually noble, generous, loyal beings. We usually display greed,
anger, and sadism first.
People have shown throughout history that rather than keeping "my child" and
"your child" alive and healthy, we'd rather have "my child" be spoiled with
unnecessary luxuries and have "your child" starve or die from some otherwise
curable disease. If we don't see it happen, then it never happened as far as
we are concerned. We lie to ourselves.
Peace is not popular because it is neither immediately lucrative nor does it
have a "winner", if you will. I do not think people will ever see peace
defined as everyone being a winner.
ANSWER 2
Peace is very popular, but talk is cheap....
People talk about peace all the time, how peaceable they are, how non violent
they are on and on....then we have these "peace" icons that blow up things. Or
fight or whatever...
What would happen if you were in a room with someone who very much disagreed
with you over whatever, you did everything to get them to see your side of
whatever view, is your first thought peace??
Again talk is cheap, actions speak louder then any words .
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"I know not with what
weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with
sticks and stones." -
Albert Einstein
