Test Run: War; what is it good for?

Keith, Patrick N. AMH2010 Monday-Friday 10:30 am


In reference to the importance of war as applied to the idea of causal relation between war and a positive influence on economic development of that state or society participating in the process of war.

I can understand the principle idea that war can be beneficial to the overall surviving majority of a society, if they are victorious. However the major factor I present to corroborate my view of descent is that war can only be beneficial to the survivors of the conflict. The survivors of the conflict will and do form a new social model for the state that does not include the participation of the dead.
Many resources go into the development of each individual member of a society. These resources of society are invested in the individual member of society for the purposes of sowing a potential gain to the society. These potentials, when they come to fruition, may then be harvested for the greater development or expansion of the society.

Every potential moment of human life wasted by a termination of life, is a failure of society to maximize on its potential. Perhaps these failures are inevitable, they happened so then I suppose that these failures were indeed inevitable. Remember that even though the past is inevitable from the perspective of the present it could seems fruitless for a society to presume that the future to is also inevitable.
Perhaps a society would be better served to work together instead of against one another. I imagine though that we as a human race are far away from a social model where the dominate motivation of the individual goes beyond our human, subjective needs and instead encompasses an objective understanding of social needs.