The morality of war... when is it okay to fight?

[Vindictive]

Humanity is destroying itself
We were never intended to live this way in the first place
There are only two options: co-operation or self destruction
If we hadn’t become so technologically advanced, we would have more time to figure out how to co-operate.
Never before in the history of the earth has so much ability to destroy been held in the hands of so few men.
An accident could exterminate the whole planet.
We aren’t smart enough to anticipate the consequences of our technological capabilities.
If we can learn to co-operate with each other, we can learn to co-operate with the planet and use the resources we have to control our own evolution…
If we can control our own population growth and demand for resources, we have the potential to expand and fill the universe. If we can’t learn good stewardship of our resources AND tolerance for one another, we will destroy ourselves before we leave this planet.
Every passing day we choose not to be at peace is another day closer to our own extinction.
We need to evolve NOW beyond the concepts of tribalism so that we recognize the world is one community and has one goal… the preservation of the human species.
If we choose NOT to be our best versions of ourselves and work as a group towards that single goal, we are failing EVERY purpose of EVERY good idea in the course of human history.
War is no longer an option. Greed is no longer an option. Apathy is no longer an option.
Any person who does not commit to the goal of saving humanity from extinction NOW and allowing all other debts and enmity to be forgotten is an enemy to all mankind and an enemy of whatever God or nature made us.
There is not time to wait to make the choice. Either we act NOW to save ourselves from destruction or we will extinguish ourselves from the universe.
All men and women who willingly choose to participate in society for the purpose of advancing the spectrum of human knowledge whether they study the structure of the universe or clean the toilets of those who do… these men and women serve humanities greatest good and they must be protected and given the chance to prosper. They are the priests serving at the temple of knowledge. They are the only hope for the future.
Any man who is wasteful of resources is an enemy of the species. War is the most wasteful thing of all. If a man is unwilling to work towards the salvation of the species or actively works against it, he must be exiled.

 

[Alexander_Smith]

War will never end. To quote Fallout “War never changes.”

Throughout history, there have been wars, and there always will be. Even if the whole world was Catholic, or Atheist (and much of medieval Europe was) there would still be war. There will always be things to fighter. Yes it is our duty as human beings to preserve peace as much as possible, but this does not nullify our duty to fight if necessary. Sometime in history there will be another Hitler, or another Stalin, or Mao. Someday the drug trade will spill over and become something the military will have to deal with.

Yes we would all love to live in a peaceful world, but life doesn’t work that way.

Is war ever good? No, not really. But war is sometimes a necessary evil, just as much as anyone of us may be required to kill in self-defense someday. To protect the innocent, the guilty was be punished. If death is the only thing that stops them, so be it.

 

[Vindictive]

I think my point is that the only just war is war against those unwilling to see the bigger picture and move forward as a race and the only way to fight that war justly is defensively. I could be wrong. I don’t always see my own point at first when I write things.

 

[Julian0404]

Do a search on THE JUST WAR THEORY and you will find the declaration you are seeking. The vaticant did not rule the First Iraq war by W. Bush as a “just war” because we were not attacked, instead the US attacked.
THE JUST WAR theory was developed long before the advent of culture destroying weapons of mass destruction. If a nation waits until it is attacked with such a weapon, a “just war” defense may not be an option, as the survivors, if any, will be unable to respond. Subsequently, in today’s age of technologically advanced and nation destroying weapons, the “just war” theory is now a conundrum, i.e. do you wait to be “justified” or do you act to “survive”?