war usually make new tech at cost of lots of lives...

Intelligent people in war becomes commander. The ones doing the fightings are the lower IQ people.

Israel maybe different because they have compulsory conscription. I think humans need wars as a mean for population control and genetic selection.

This post has been edited by soul2soul: May 6 2010, 02:51 PM

lol population control.. go declare war on China then...

What make u say so?
At the first place how a commander get promote then?

I thot the more intelligent we are, the more we will appreciate that war is like a game of tic-tac-toe, no one really wins? They called it MAD (mutually assured destruction) in the 70's. Its not just the low IQ that dies. High IQ oso kena. Millions of Jews were put to death in WW2. The survivors became the people that won the most nobel prizes, gave us the most important scientific discoveries and the best advances in the arts & medicine. They were not low IQ people.

Using war as a tool of eugenics (selective breeding) itself is not very intelligent. It is inefficient, expensive, messy, and often achieves the opposite effect by releasing tides of refugees.

Forgot to add that usually, war is not started by the intelligent. They are started by politicians.

This post has been edited by Beastboy: May 7 2010, 12:23 PM

War sucks, nuff say

Perhaps, we need to define what war really is. It is to accomplish something through force.

Why would one needed force to accomplish something? Because the alternative won't work?

Perhaps "war", is simply a larger scale to describe our need to "break", "dismantle", and "destroy" whether the need is due to frustration, or the absence of other options?

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: May 9 2010, 10:17 PM

To me, war is a method to settle disagreements. Some societies shoot first, talk later like the Roman invaders so its not always a last resort.

I can't imagine a higher purpose to war. Sometimes countries are better off after a war. Sometimes they are worse off. Whoever wins, its a matter of time before nature resets the game by killing everyone off and wiping the board clean, either by disease, lack of food or natural disasters. Back to square one for society & the cycle repeats again. So if there's any benefit to war I would think its purely random.

humans make war, the war naturally is from human, to acheiv their motiv by create a war to solv their problem

war is bad. peace is good. sex is the best....lol

1)vengeance
2)conquest
3)pre emptive strikes.

just some reasons i can think of for war, both past and present.

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Added on May 15, 2010, 6:57 pmsomtimes war leads to sex.


This post has been edited by teongpeng: May 15 2010, 06:57 PM

no, war leads to rapists....lol

relationships between human are some of the hardest things to maintain. Tolerance is the only way, no matter its between spouses, parents-son, friends..etc. When that mutual barrier breaks, wars are necessary

Make love, not war - you mean .

agreed.

There's also another reason to start a war- resource and for wealth. Looks like Afghan economy will be under control by the Pentagon.

U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/as...no_interstitial

WAR is real and a solid word. PEACE is a dreamers tale and a fictional word.

War is not the answer but a question. And the answer is "Yes" judging by human nature.

As long as human need food and shelter, war will be wedge anytime or anywhere when there is insufficient. This is inevitable. There's no diplomatic solution.

From my view, only arms industry will benefit from the war..