Evan Hays-
On War


What is war.
War is sacrifice.

War is the result of two parties in conflict, refusing on ample compromise, and thus as a circumstance they begin to coerce one another into a particular line of reason. In short, its when there is one sandwich and two people, and they dont want to share.
However, more broadly defined, war is simply a conflict between two groups. There have been hundreds of ethnically motivated wars, and thousands more wars based on other things. There is a war on terrorism, a war on drugs, a war on war even. So whats its value, why is the war, where does it start, and how does it end?

Or should it even.

I don't think so. The issue with war is not with war itself. War has many uses and applications. In the words of the Jackal, a notorious Liberian Gun Runner, "You aren't a good man, you've just been lucky, and have never had to be otherwise. I had to profit on this war, so I did. A man will do what he can do." The Bottom line stands, since we've found human skeletons fossilized in the dirt we have found spearheads lodged in their chest. War may not be the best course of action, it simply IS the course of action. Every time a person asks why a war happens in their home they may as well be asking why there isn't a war in another persons home. War is a constant part of humanity. People think they are sacrificing their lives for their country, but really they are sacrificing for humanity.
Radio
Rubber
Radar

Medicine
Motor Vehicles
Machine Washable clothes

All of these were invented by war. They were bread from war. And compared to the hundred lives lost, the thousands saved from these inventions speak to the virtue of conflict. "When everyone thinks alike, nobody is thinking". We require variation of ideas to make sure that innovation and invention persist. Without war, we would be dead in peace. With war, we can live in conflict. But we can live.