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1/18/2015 2:11:55 AM
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Back in me ol WW1 days, when I met daisy, war was about fighting wrong doings, nowadays, we fight for oil or because we kinda want to go to war. We used to fight because someone bombed pearl harbor, now we fight because someone sent us a mean video on the internet. Unless we go to war because someone blew up the Pentagon or something like that, I ain't goin.
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War has never been fought for "noble" causes. War has always been the physical manifestation of politics.
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Resisting an invading army, twice, seems pretty noble.
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Which country is this?
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Edited by NeXuS: 1/18/2015 6:46:42 AMPretty much the entire of Europe, most recently, then there are the causes against invasions by Rome, invasions by the Chinese, Mongolians, Russians, British, Spanish, French, English, Americans and many more. Invading a country is not noble, defending your country, and way of life from an invading force = noble.
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Oh, I was talking about any of the wars America has been involved in. Because the topic was the draft in America.
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Ah, I was only responding to your comment that stated, fighting a war is never "noble"; I believe it is, if the cause is just, like defending against an invasion. I didn't limit myself to America, because I believed your comment reflected the aforementioned idea. Being drafted to fight a war, based on corruption is, I agree, not very noble.
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Well, my knowledge of wars comes mainly from what I learned in high school. And we covered very little of any war from another nation's perspective. So I was thinking that others had the same mindset. I forgot how multicultural this site is. War is tricky. Nobility is an archaic concept. It's hard for me to say "I will kill that man because he is invading my land and this is just a and noble." only because I have no more right to live than he does. A person invading my country and taking what is mine would make me angry, and I of course would defend myself. Hell, I joined knowing full well that if the Air Force slapped a gun in my hand, I would have to shoot it, but I would never call a profession of killing noble. There is nothing noble about it.
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Edited by NeXuS: 1/18/2015 7:40:19 AMI agree that blindly following orders is not noble, however if someone is trying to invade my land, kill my friends, and destroy my way of life, because they disagree with it, I'd say fighting back is pretty noble. They picked the fight, and told you to convert or die. Your cause is just. Our world, and western society would be very different, both in Europe, and America, had the Germans succeeded during WW1 and WW2.
