Wars are mostly unnecessary but necessary in exceptions. Wars can lead to destruction, change, provoke communities and control. I myself a believer of Hinduism. As my culture and religion has taught me that wars is only acceptable when, there is some person who retaliates the human rights and morality of the humans. It is rarely acceptable to just start a war for random minor issues between two different communities. First, always try to solve the problem by vocal means. I have read my religion’s holy book, which is like the bible and it known as Bhagavad Gita. It tells us the story about a very big war between two kings, in there the best archer does not pick up the weapons because he was fighting his own brothers. His brothers were ruling badly and killing innocent people. The god tell the best archer to pick up the weapon and tells him that this are the times when it's a necessity to pick the weapons and start the war. Well that
Bothe this belief system leads to tell us that war can sometimes leads to complete destruction but also, something good and beautiful. The Buddhism states the same thing but without the violence. All three worldviews tells me only one thing nonviolence is greater than the violence. Wars can lead to ruining the world and might not leave anyone behind. In the history I have learned that there was a time when two major powers of the world almost were head to head for killing each other. Imagine if that history was true I, we would not be able to look back at all and would not be even born. That tragic time was defeated by the power of nonviolence and peace. So, My thinking is that even in the future if we have to deal with the war we should answer the attacker with the power of the nonviolence that god has given
P. 1: "I teach kings the history of their ancestors, so that the lives of the ancients might serve them as an example, for the world is old, but the future springs from the past."
History is full of people fighting against one another and going to war for all types of different reasons. For the most part countries go to war to either protect their way of life, or for a better way of living. We want to preserve certain aspects of life like our rights, as well as helping others gain or maintain them, we also want to be able to prosper as a country. When one or some of these things are threatened a country will go to war. Some wars that fallow this trend include the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War. Besides protecting or bettering life, war can also make or break a countries economy.
Generally, war results from arguments between nations over things like land, power, money, or religion. War over religion contradicts religion itself. In the passage titled “On War”, James Boswell states, “That amiable religion which “proclaims peace on earth,” hath not as yet made war to cease.” If religion proclaims peace on earth, then war goes against those morals.
As a pacifist, I disagree with all wars in theory. I am realistic enough to comprehend that conflict is sometimes unavoidable because, of specific circumstances, understanding and accepting are two very isolated ideas. I hold on to the optimistic perspective that situations can be resolved peacefully as long as all parties are willing to contribute to a peaceful outcome. On a more personal level, my resistance towards war also stems from family members and friends who are and have
...fists can be uneffective in a war minded society. If an aggressor is attacking with no opposition, one cannot rely on the morality of the aggressors to halt the attack. Intervention of the attacks would be impermissible by the standards of absolute pacifism, as it would contribute to the overall amount of violence. The absolute pacifist would become a martyr for their beliefs, and without opposing the aggressive force societies would be annihilated. I believe while pacifism is morally better than war in terms of the amount of violence projected, and diplomatic negotiation should be the main solution to world issues, it is a commonality of society that war can potentially be the quickest solution to stop an aggressor. Although the notion of a Just War is unattainable, the causes of war as described in the theory set a standard for global leaders to promote justice.
The Bhagavad Gita is perhaps the most famous, and definitely the most widely-read, ethical text of ancient India. As an episode in India's great epic, the Mahabharata, The Bhagavad Gita now ranks as one of the three principal texts that define and capture the essence of Hinduism; the other two being the Upanishads and the Brahma Sutras. Though this work contains much theology, its kernel is ethical and its teaching is set in the context of an ethical problem. The teaching of The Bhagavad Gita is summed up in the maxim "your business is with the deed and not with the result." When Arjuna, the third son of king Pandu (dynasty name: Pandavas) is about to begin a war that became inevitable once his one hundred cousins belonging to the Kaurava dynasty refused to return even a few villages to the five Pandava brothers after their return from enforced exile, he looks at his cousins, uncles and friends standing on the other side of the battlefield and wonders whether he is morally prepared and justified in killing his blood relations even though it was he, along with his brother Bhima, who had courageously prepared for this war. Arjuna is certain that he would be victorious in this war since he has Lord Krishna (one of the ten incarnations of Vishnu) on his side. He is able to visualize the scene at the end of the battle; the dead bodies of his cousins lying on the battlefield, motionless and incapable of vengeance. It is then that he looses his nerve to fight.
Arjuna gives up now, he will be full of shame, and a man who has given up
Considered by most as the authority and seminal scripture relaying together all schools of Hindu philosophy, the Bhagavad Gita, is simply one big epic poem (by Western standards), where Sri Krishna reveals himself to Arjuna, a warrior on the eve of a great war with his own family to restore the throne to its rightful heir. This epic serves as metaphor for The Path the spiritual aspirant must take to attain illumination and become one with Krishna. (http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-bhagavad-gita/). Even though this epic was written in first century B. C. E., as a matter of fact, threads of the teachings of Krishna to Prince Arjuna in The Bhagavad-Gītā have been interwoven throughout 1960’s and 1970’s popular culture. These threads helped influence a generation of artists whose works we revere to this day. These threads were essentially:
War has always been, and will always be, a necessary action perpetrated by man. There are many reasons for war: rage, passion, greed, defense, and religion to name a few. When differences cannot be solved or compromised through mediation with an opposing party, war is the last remaining option. Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun wrote in fourteenth-century Spain, that “War is a universal and inevitable aspect of life, ordained by God to the same extent as the sky and the earth, the heat and the cold. The question of whether to fright is not a significant moral question because fighting is constant; the minor decision not to fight this war will be made only in the context of knowing that another war will present itself soon enough because it is simply always there.” (Peter S. Themes. The Just War)
What is war? Is it as simple as one entity against another, or is it something more? Can it be defined as simply killing, or can warfare exist without bloodshed? Reading stories and journals on previous warfare shows that there’s always more than one side. There are infinitely many viewpoints when it comes to this topic, including its overdrawn controversy among people. There are people that believe war is a necessity for this world to function, you have people that are strictly against war, and some are even indifferent about the subject. But who’s right and who’s wrong? Is it all a matter of opinion or is their proof of one side over the other? First, you need to go to the basics.
There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of
There is a notion that wars are caused just by these three things: Money, Sex and Power, which I believe is true to the faith. As sex is more sensitive topic which requires another point of view, we’ll discuss more about money and power. Spiritually speaking, money and power is just a state of mind. A pacific and eloquent mind doesn’t even bother about having those. It possesses the feeling of being rich and powerful. This mind of high spiritual stability is just after one thing, knowledge. And there is a proverb supporting their persuasion, ‘knowledge is power’. Knowledge is the real power one should be after and money and power just follows.
Although there are many types of conflict, religion definitely plays a large role in the amount of conflict that occurs, as well as the many disputes caused by people's differences in religious beliefs. Religious conflict is present in all parts of our world; it creates conflict in political, military and social areas of our lives and is present in things like the Olympics, battles, wars, terrorism and hunting, things far from the realm of inconceivable to us. Conflict is present in all of history, in all places and has many causes but all of these feed into how we change, grow, explore and learn more about our world for better or worse.
War it is such a vast word in our society today and seems to be everywhere. What is war? How do we define it in a technologically advanced society? Traditionally war involved armies fighting one another in a battle to overtake or annihilate the enemy. The concept is still the same although war is no longer contained to battlefields or between countries. These days we have civil wars within countries; economic war, race wars, religious wars, political wars and even class wars. Furthermore, the invention of nuclear weapons greatly increases tension and instability on a global level. Despite the current state of the world, most people would indicate the desire for world peace although, we have been unable to stop wars or obtain global peace. With the vast majority in favor of global peace, it should be easy to achieve although the turbulence in the world today demonstrates the opposite. Most scholars would agree that war regardless of the kind; is ultimately a struggle for power. This positions man in a perpetual state of war maybe that is what Mark Twain thought when he wrote, “Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.” This begs the question is peace possible in this chaotic world full of wars and rumors of wars that threaten the very existence of mankind? By examining the causes of war, the lack of a workable international system and the obstacles that prevent a viable international system to promote peace will show that despite the desire for global peace it is unattainable.
Furthermore, religion can be a tool for either unifying a nation or a group or it can lead to the destruction of nations as well as internal state conflicts. However, the relationship between religion and conflicts is very complex (Barnard 1). Therefore, one must take into consideration many other factors before considering religion as the main cause. Most religions actually teach people that war is wrong and violence must be considered as a last option. Religious writings and books give guidelines on how people should act and when to use violence and when not to. Most people interpret these guidelines in their own different way, and end up abusing these religious scripts which may lead to conflicts (Barnard 1). However in many parts of the world, people from different religions live in harmony and coexist in peace yet in other parts of the...