Blog 9- Safal Dumre

Most of the time war is fought for or against a certain country. The idea of a country is one mankind made. We drew imaginary lines separating ourselves from other member of our species. Now we are the only species in the world that actively tries to destroy other members of our species. The concept of nationalism and sectionalism, loyalty to the interests of a particular region or country rather than the interests of the whole, is the driving force behind war, but it’s completely illogical. If a person solved their problems by killing the enemy, he would be tried for murder and put in jail. If a nation does the same thing but on a massive scale, it’s considered war. The crime is the same, murder. That being said, in the world we live in today, that doesn’t seem to be the mindset of our global leaders. The ideal world would be a warless one, but in some cases war in the only option. Consider WWII, The Nazis killed over 8 million Jews and millions of other groups of people they deemed unfit for their ideal world. The moral conflict in that case is if one has the power to stop them, shouldn’t they? War in that case seems to be the right choice morally. Rather than letting millions of people die, you go to war and stop them. Yes people will die in the process, but in the grand scheme of things you saved more lives than you lost.  In cases like those, where you can’t reason with the insane, brute force seems to be the only solution.