That should not stop you or members of this group from adding to the list. 
That is what this topic is all about.

On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 3:11:29 PM UTC+1, archytas wrote:
>
> 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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