Very interesting question you pose Molly. Of course it is very easy to see the many negative consequences to war, which seems to be a part of human nature. I like to believe that there is always 2 sides to everything - positive and negative. War with weapons and fighting with words have some common ground, like you suggest. Being an aggressor in a war and being a bully also share common ground.
The positive consequences of bullying that I can think of are: 1. It can make you stronger when you are bullied. 2. It shows you who your friends are who come to your aid if you are bullied. 3. It allows you to show your friendship by coming to the aid of your friends who are bullied. 4. It allows you to make friends by coming to the aid of strangers who are bullied. 5. You can learn from it so that you do not bully others yourself. The positive consequences of war that I can think of are much more difficult to spot of course: 1. It advances knowledge and technology that can be useful in times of peace. 2. It allows people to mix their cultures, knowledge and genes. 3. It can protect your countrymen and family against aggressors. 4. Like natural disasters like floods. earthquakes, fires and epidemics,it can be used to counteract over population. 5. We can learn from it. If you love your enemies, like Jesus is claimed to have said, then you will not have any. On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 at 12:03:34 AM UTC+1, Molly wrote: > > Howard Zinn, http://howardzinn.org/ historian, author, professor, > playwright, and activist, whose life’s work focused on a wide range of > issues including race, class, war, and history, and touched the lives of > countless people, said "war itself is the enemy of the human race" > http://bit.ly/1FwyDUP <http://bit.ly/1FwyDUP> > > We go to war in a variety of ways, big to small. daily (some of us), in > interpersonal ways, and over decades, as the human race. Why? > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
