So I had just finished my first round of studying for an upcoming test (session lasted 3 hours) and as I was walking out of the library, a group of rebble-rousers came marching up from around the corner carrying a banner and a mega-phone. This would have been the highlight of my day had it not been for the two religious zealouts that were immediately behind me shouting to the group that had formed. I believe they were berating anyone and anything not affiliated 100% with Jesus. But I digress.....
So this group of young pseudo-hippies comes around the corner led by a nazi-like charge -- employing flagrant imagery, hysterical rants (about ending imperialism here on campus), and commanding attention. As they were walking/marching by and chanting "Hey hey, ho ho, Imperialism has got to go!" I took a brief second to reflect on their views. After my brief moment of introspection was done, I turned to a friend who was standing next to me and said, "What if I like war? Does that make me bad or make them good?" This wasn't too pleasing to the crowd who were now coincidentally walking towards the zealouts. They cast daggers at me while I marvelled in the bomb that was to follow. Unfortunately for the story, I didn't stay around to find out what happened but I did hear the strom like siren of the bullhorn wail as I was walking away.
Back to my original point -- is war so wrong? If one were to simply trivialize the deaths of all involved per side and assign a simple "1" in the "negative" column, what other profound negatives are there? Sure there is residual resentment (evidenced in WW1) and a general immasculating feeling for the losing side but think of all the positives there are! An advent of new technology invariably comes out during or after the war in a vain attempt to belay more wars or to to fight them more efficiently. Isn't the ultimate goal of war to remove the deaths and solve problems peacefully? If we are to assume that the deaths that are associated with war are negative, wouldn't the eliminating of said deaths be a positive?
Just a few of the things I was thinking about when the perfect storm collides.
BTW, this is the group I was referring to http://www.ucfsds.com/
So this group of young pseudo-hippies comes around the corner led by a nazi-like charge -- employing flagrant imagery, hysterical rants (about ending imperialism here on campus), and commanding attention. As they were walking/marching by and chanting "Hey hey, ho ho, Imperialism has got to go!" I took a brief second to reflect on their views. After my brief moment of introspection was done, I turned to a friend who was standing next to me and said, "What if I like war? Does that make me bad or make them good?" This wasn't too pleasing to the crowd who were now coincidentally walking towards the zealouts. They cast daggers at me while I marvelled in the bomb that was to follow. Unfortunately for the story, I didn't stay around to find out what happened but I did hear the strom like siren of the bullhorn wail as I was walking away.
Back to my original point -- is war so wrong? If one were to simply trivialize the deaths of all involved per side and assign a simple "1" in the "negative" column, what other profound negatives are there? Sure there is residual resentment (evidenced in WW1) and a general immasculating feeling for the losing side but think of all the positives there are! An advent of new technology invariably comes out during or after the war in a vain attempt to belay more wars or to to fight them more efficiently. Isn't the ultimate goal of war to remove the deaths and solve problems peacefully? If we are to assume that the deaths that are associated with war are negative, wouldn't the eliminating of said deaths be a positive?
Just a few of the things I was thinking about when the perfect storm collides.
BTW, this is the group I was referring to http://www.ucfsds.com/
It seemed pretty complete to me. Sometimes to only recourse is a bit of measured violence in order to stave off a whole lot more violence.
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