Full lists on this would be very long. On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 11:27:21 AM UTC, andrew vecsey wrote: > > 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? >> >
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