Is War Worth It?

Is War Worth It?

“War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.” That is a quote from Martin Luther King Jr., basically saying that war destroys everything that crosses its path. War is everything but beneficial.

War destroys families and homes. War doesn’t do any good for the families of people who went to fight. “War is a bad thing because it involves deliberately killing or injuring people, and this is a fundamental wrong - an abuse of the victims' human rights”(Ethics of War). People kill each other without thinking about their families. It can also affect the young ones. “Some turn to alcohol or drug misuse as a coping mechanism – this behaviour is particularly common among street children and child soldiers”(War child). War affects everyone in the family of those who went to fight. Children can be the most affected, since they just lost someone they loved and can’t deal with such pain. War destroys families and can lead people to do drugs and alcohol as coping mechanisms, it also leads people to kill each other

without thinking about the consequences.
War is expensive.

There’s a lot of money spent on equipment that could be used for other useful things necessary for everyone. “The prospect of crippling economic burdens and huge numbers of deaths doesn't necessarily sway people from their positions on whether going to war is the right or wrong choice”(Huffington Post). People don’t really seem to care about economy while going to war until it’s too late to go back. The Gulf War of 1991 is an example of how war affects economy. “The 1990s boom showed that peace is economically far better than war. The Gulf war of 1991 demonstrated that wars can actually be bad for an economy”(Fourwinds10). Not only the Gulf War of 1991 was affected, mostly all the people who went to war suffered great damage to their economy. Mostly while rebuilding. So, war damages economy before, during and after it

happens.
Some people might say that war is actually good for the economy. It’s actually not so beneficial because war is expensive and when it’s over, it would cost even more to repair and rebuild. Money can be taken after war, but how many lives, homes and families have to be destroyed to get it. “Prosperity is an essential partner in civilization itself. It is the basis of leisure, charity, and a hopeful outlook on life. It is the means for conquering poverty at the lowest rung of society, the basis on which children and the elderly are cared for, the foundation for the cultivation of arts and learning. Crush an economy and you crush civilization” (Mises). So, economy is affected in a bad way by war and can be devastating for the people. While it is true that economy is affected by war, it’s not always in a good way.
War is irrational. Everyone and everything is affected by it, mostly in an awful way. Economy is destroyed, families, homes and lives are destroyed by it. Nothing positive is ever left by war. So, is it really the best solution for our problems.