There is only good and evil. If war is defeating a bad(evil) thing, then it is by default a good thing.
No, because bad shouldn't be there in the first place, ideally.
Only if that enemy is reasonable, and the vast majority aren't (if they were, they probably wouldn't be enemies.)
Rarely there is a truely good side and a truely bad side. Half the time, both are bad, but one is worse.
I agree. But remember that freedom is never free.
Funny you should say that, only when humans became the dominate species (and even before that) that statement would be true :/
Well, usually it's because they're willing to crush all opposition violently in order to do it (eg. Hitler).
From what I know, he didn't want to fight Britain, and furthermore, he raised Germany into a superpower of the time. He needed land, granted, I in no way agree with what he did but it wasn't entirely without good reason.
Like any tool, war must be used responsibly and never loaned.
I find it disturbing you keep to referring to it so much like a tool, rather than... well, bad.
One side of war is bad, all the time. Either the reasons for it are bad, or the conditions it was brought in with were bad, or the thing one side is fighting is bad.
War is never a 'good' thing, sometimes it's simply a 'necessary evil' (what you call good). And I don't believe in good vs. evil either, those are both subjective notions and it depends on who is to decide what is good and what is evil in a certain situation.
I'd hate to look like an idiot as I usually do, but this time I'll point out a quote from a Call of Duty Game: "History is written by the victor."
Stands for World War II, it kind of stands for The Hundred Years War and it stands for others as well.
Granted, there's exceptions.
As to good and evil, it is true that there are sometimes necessary evils, but good and evil are never subjective. They are absolutes. Without absolutes, there is no truth; without truth, there can be nothing.
Good and evil things are solved subjectively. You can always say that killing someone is wrong, but food needs to go around and obviously we've a shortage (which is why there is starvation), it is a necessity some people take.
No, I don't believe that, but it's philosophical and thus subjective, unless you can actually PROVE that, it's very difficult to lay down good and evil.
And thus they're not truths.
There isn't nothing though.
- H
