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Kirameo on 02 April 2011
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Kasz216 said:
Kirameo said:

I don't support any kind of war basicly because the underlying problems that cause them can be solved with intelligent strategies that don't involve violence. If the money that is used for war budgets was used instead in other more important things like solving hunger and creating sustainable technologies, then the world would be quite a better place to live. War is just like an E-Penis war on steroids.

That's actually not true.

Wars are actually quite possible the biggest cause of innovation.

Without wars we wouldn't have....

Well... the Internet or Computers to start with.

Or Radio.

Or Cellphones or any other Sattelite based technology.

Like GPS.

Or Jet planes. (For better planes.)


Not that i'm for wars... but your statement is blatantly incorrect when you consider just all the technology created for war that at the time people didn't even see civilian uses for.

Practically all of the most useful technology we have today was first created by the military specifically for military means because the civilian benefits were seen as limited.

 

Heck, things like that Star Wars Defense system thing they're working on my later be used for enviromental engineering.


I'm sorry, but you are assuming that the ONLY way in which these technologies could be developed is war, which is untrue. These were just the circumstances of history mainly because of the drive that war imposes in those involved in them to develop technologies that makes them more likely to win. That doesn't mean that it would be impossible to develop such technologies in other circumstances.

But let's assume you are correct, which is the case in present time at least. This doesn't mean that we should follow that line of thought in the future. That would essentially be too dangerous to handle. In this day and age there's no reason to keep on wasting so much money on war budgets ( I'm not saying that it should be eliminated, which would be ridiculous). My point is that if you cut down that budget and use the money saved to invest in other more important problems (such as those stated in the Millennium Development Goals), the world would surely be a better place.