War is a crime

[butragenjo]

War is barbarian practice and not accepted in inteligent world,We have uninteligent governments

[barbara44]

War destroys life an dmoney, I think its really a crime

[bitsmichel]

We are civilized humans not savages. Although we are civilized, we still fight wars like savages. War is essentially stealing. It's stealing because you are taking another's land, money, and resources while killing thousands of people in the process. It's immoral and unfair. The people who steal this way are not penalized for their wrongdoings instead they are treated as heroes.

If people take whats yours and you start a "war", is that stealing? 

[AzN1337c0d3r]

Every time someone dies it's a crime. Not killing people. And most of all if someone doesn't want to participate in your war they shouldn't be thrown in jail. All people have the right to live.

[galdur]

Take it from a soldier:

CHAPTER ONE

War Is A Racket

WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

In the World War a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.

How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?

Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few -- the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill.

And what is this bill?

This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out. ,,,,..much more

War Is A Racket

By Major General Smedley Butler

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html

[Tusk]

War is social cannibalism.

[blazsqd]

Most of our current understanding of war crimes was established during the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, and the Geneva Protocol of 1925. Further rules concerning the treatment of POWs were set in the Geneva Conventions I, II, III, and IV.

[AzN1337c0d3r]

I've seen a post somewhere on the web - don't remember exactly where thought, but what it said was something in the lines of: 2015 total global expenses of war - 1795 billion$, while the necessary $ to end world wide hunger was 170 I believe. Just a thought.

[Betwrong]

We are civilized humans not savages. Although we are civilized, we still fight wars like savages. War is essentially stealing. It's stealing because you are taking another's land, money, and resources while killing thousands of people in the process. It's immoral and unfair. The people who steal this way are not penalized for their wrongdoings instead they are treated as heroes.

If someone steals from someone else they get punished, if someone kills someone else they get punished. However if a group of individuals (country) plunders, murders and destroyes another group of individuals...they do not get punished. There is no authority to punish them.

The sad thing is, war has become somewhat like a game. We even have RULES for war  this is total madness. It's like making rules for stealing, it does not make sense.

War itself should be illegal it is a crime like any other crime. The fact that we wage war over each other reflects the evil in the collective human psycy. We are civilized but we continue to act like savages. What is the use of technological, and societal development when we cannot even be good to each other.

What do you guys think?
Is war justified?

I can see your point and I agree with you partly. I think about it a lot too. I think that if we have no weapons at all the world would be a better place. But also I think what if in such a world a group of individuals with baseball bats (which are not weapons aren't they) will start terrorisng all people around saying they all should follow their instructions or otherwise they'll be beaten? Then what?

Actually I don't know the right answer.

[salinizm]

If war is stealing, who is the thief and who is the victim?
Sometimes, it is not possible to identify the aggressor in a war.

i don't agree with you it is really easy to identify the aggressors... they are the ones who starts the bloody war for their greedy desires..

[CryingMidget]

War is barbarian practice and not accepted in inteligent world,We have uninteligent governments

yeah right dude.
stupid only will go with war. intelligent people will do a smart war like invention, medical things around the world and more..
But still stupid international politicians are there.

[panju1]

If war is stealing, who is the thief and who is the victim?
Sometimes, it is not possible to identify the aggressor in a war.

i don't agree with you it is really easy to identify the aggressors... they are the ones who starts the bloody war for their greedy desires..

You are from Turkey, right? If Russia attacked Turkey for shooting down its plane, who would be aggressor?
Russia could claim that Turkey made the first attack.

[ukeden]

war crime is stupid word it is too idealistic i know you think i am bad or whatever i dont really care war is war war is bad thats how it is it has only been recently that people started being concerned with "war crimes" since with "war crimes" there is no way to win a war

[bitgolden]

war crime is stupid word it is too idealistic i know you think i am bad or whatever i dont really care war is war war is bad thats how it is it has only been recently that people started being concerned with "war crimes" since with "war crimes" there is no way to win a war

Yes, but I think the main reasons that bring about a war or the beginnings of a misunderstood is religion.
Religious leaders ironically demand peace, but then there are those who go against the regime and install their own hardcore beliefs.

[bizerinm]

War means money to some people, to creators and also is a place for testing different arms, poisons and making experiments. Remember LSD and Vietnam..and illegal labs in south Asia. If somebody attacks you, your country, start killing people and taking your territory than you must defend your borders, your state...like this on middle East now

[A0LA]

War is barbarian practice and not accepted in inteligent world,We have uninteligent governments

I don't think his is our government that is unintelligent but rather our society 

[CasioK]

war crime is stupid word it is too idealistic i know you think i am bad or whatever i dont really care war is war war is bad thats how it is it has only been recently that people started being concerned with "war crimes" since with "war crimes" there is no way to win a war

Yes, but I think the main reasons that bring about a war or the beginnings of a misunderstood is religion.
Religious leaders ironically demand peace, but then there are those who go against the regime and install their own hardcore beliefs.

Yes religions play big role. All religions are basically the peaceful religions but the few extremists that are scattered throughout the world make it unbearable for the rest.

[cluit]

war crime is stupid word it is too idealistic i know you think i am bad or whatever i dont really care war is war war is bad thats how it is it has only been recently that people started being concerned with "war crimes" since with "war crimes" there is no way to win a war

Yes, but I think the main reasons that bring about a war or the beginnings of a misunderstood is religion.
Religious leaders ironically demand peace, but then there are those who go against the regime and install their own hardcore beliefs.

Yes religions play big role. All religions are basically the peaceful religions but the few extremists that are scattered throughout the world make it unbearable for the rest.

Politics is another wretched reason for war, every leader wants to be the top and foremost in their government, basically all for greed and money and of course power. As long as religion and power rule the world, wars will be inevitable.

[Whosdaddy]

[-snip-]
Politics is another wretched reason for war, every leader wants to be the top and foremost in their government, basically all for greed and money and of course power. As long as religion and power rule the world, wars will be inevitable.

You cannot label a country as a terrorist country for causing wars just because some people there are crazy and fundamentally confused, look at the rest of the population they are living peaceful lives like me and you.

[salinizm]

War, sometimes, is the tool to solve problem of population explosion, resource allocation, economic development, social contradictions and etc.

War is crime when everyone thinks of humanity and value of human life. War looks to be a business when a ruling power tries to conquer a particular community or locality.

i agree with you .. war is a true definite of a bloddy hell crime