War: Is it worth it?

[JonXia]

Originally Posted by Shenlon

Wars may be driven by a leader's need for enjoyment? What the hell? Point out one example of that, please.

If I was Hitler, I'd take a relaxing day sniping out some Jews, no offense but the thrill of battle sometimes gets people off, or is just plain fun. Nowadays poeple have fun contolling people in a simulated enviroment making others fight for them. from Warcraft 3 to Halo people enjoy the whole army thing and have fun doing it, who is to say that ths would be like the same thing for a general with no videogames?

Originally Posted by Shenlon

War is a costly, risky endeavor.

Pre-WW1, not very good economy. During and after, good economy. We start to go down into the great depression, Germany builds an army. We go to war. Economy good. Hell, Japan wouldn't be like it is today if we didn't drop the bomb (I'm Canadian, so I guess it wouldn't be "we" would it?) and to make myself sound like Stephen Colbert, You're welcome

Originally Posted by Shenlon

And it seems you contradict yourself by also saying that war is not most likely driven by our more animalistic side but enjoyment as itself seems a pretty base reason for war.

Not contradiction, it is an animal side, yet we take enjoyment from it. Kind of like we are born predators and we go hunting to enjoy the hunt (As an example, not a clarification). We go to war yet we enjoy doing so.


Thanks Zythus and rzr. Props to you too.

Originally Posted by purebloodtexan

I don't think that Rzr realizes that many jihadis are trained from the time that they can speak.

Which will further war, somebody has to make a profit and since they are trained from the time they can speak they also are taught to enjoy it.

The reason why we need democracy is to avoid power hungry individuals, like what I said before, that enjoy war or have their own ideals. We could just leave them in power, where there is no peace, women get raped like it is something you do before you have dinner, child executions are right beside the adults. How about we go in and try to do something about it. I don't care if there is an scondary motive like oil. If peace eventually comes out of it, then why not?