War is also enormously expensive, especially if you include the rebuilding that comes afterward.
Thats not really a bad thing… that is to rebuild old cities. Keeps people employed, the expense is the cost of hiring people to toil, when before they were sharpening their knives and loading guns both mentally and physically. The power keg of ideas from faulty ideas can only be resolved finally by armed conflict, where usually the more consistent view prevails and this leads to a better understanding IMO.
Better poverty? How is it “better?” Do you not think that the need to address a rising population necessitates growth, planning, solutions?
Yes but only after the “crisis of decision” that must be weathered to move forward. Population and Poverty fulfill each other together and only a shake up of the path that keeps this pattern going proves a remedy. Because of the driven need of the sex drive people ( usually the poor) have a harder time to break up the pattern. War always breaks the pattern.
If you put domesticated animals in the wilderness, eventually they break the mind sets of what was learned and retire to natural instincts. If the social constructs were broken by war, a new pattern can emerge also breaking the caste of what didn’t work before.
Basically i refer to Freud and his Civilization and its Discontents probably one of the best books dealing with the human condition and why we have familiar patterns for the sex drive. I just using the idea of war to prove that its can effect a real change of awareness in humanity for a higher short term cost, but a much cheaper long term cost.
Yes i also admit that the sexual drive is strong, but the subject is certainly not the main item of discussion even in the news. War is the paramount concern. So I’m also arguing the basic preposition of the original question.
And that the demand of AIDS patients stimulates industry, research, and technology? Undoubtedly war has contributed some to the world, but only after it was applied in a damaging capacity.
Of course but nothing close to the different technology you get from war. The tech from war is always applied to the public sector in very real measurable ways that would prove a greater benefit than say the last 20 years of finding a cure for aids. besides 20 years of health care for patients is a huge cost that would prove relative to a few years of war.
Even the cold war created NASA and JPL and all the modern aerospace developments. Didn’t you like those pictures from Titan? Indirectly you can thank the cold war for it.
