Originally posted by Icefalcon
Originally posted by Merdarion
Just a little question: Is War good?
my answer: no.
*stares in disbelief*
You\'ve got to be kidding. You can\'t condemn \"war\" as evil, no matter what. I can list countless of scenarios when war is a good thing.
See, that\'s what happens if you remain closed-minded (in this case thinking war is good because you\'re on the \"good team\", and they\'re on the \"bad team\"
). You treat things with disbelief.
Of course war is evil. Just by deffinition, evil is \"that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune\". But should the assumption be it is wrong to fight wars? See, here\'s the funny part, because that\'s closed-mindness as well. \'Evil\' does not equal \'wrong\'.
But some do not consider war as evil, and set their own deffinitions of \"evil\". It usually means then something along lines of \"Intention to harm others\". And two problems begin here:
1) You rarely can be sure what one\'s intentions are.
2) Intentions do not harm by themselves, thus can not be evil (only actions can). \"Evil intentions\" is just short for \"Intentions to do evil\".
Combined together it makes it wrong to fight someone for the assumed intentions as a form of fighting evil.
There\'s also another problem caused by fanatism. People would be considered evil just for criticizing one\'s ways or, for example, standing in defense of husband who happens to be a thief.
But would that thief be evil in the first place? What if he steals from rich to make sure his family wouldn\'t starve?
Wouldn\'t that be chaotic-good? Just like Robin Hood stole from rich to help the poor.
Alignments are another thing because thief could not be considered chaotic-evil as long as he doesn\'t steal just for the suffering of others.
He would be hunted down because of doing \"unjust\" thing. But so would be killing him.
One could say killing is giving lesson for stealing. But what if money he stole, belonged to a guy who got them thanks to corruption? Wouldn\'t that be giving a lesson as well?
Of course that\'s lots of thinking before one could consider something \"evil\". Thus it ends up in hunting down those who just
might be evil. It\'s much easier.
All in all fighting evil is just turning away attention from what really should be fought: corruption, greed, falsehood...
To end my rant, I\'d like to say once again:
If you\'re good - fight for what you love, not against what you hate.
I won\'t stand in defense of my opinions, this is just for self consideration.
- Swords