Best reason to start a war

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hailmagus

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Toasty said:
You know that wars can and have been started for all kinds of reasons, territory/land, money, power, revenge, oil, some royal somebody not marrying some other royal somebody as Daddy wanted etc.
So what in your opinion is the best or most worthwhile reason to start a war?
(not saying wars are great things to start,so you had better have a good reason)
Leia... but not just any war will do... it would have to be a... STAR WAR....................S.
 

Manji187

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Financial interests (military industrial complex) and geopolitical/ strategic objectives (securing/ expanding influence).

War is a game played by the elite... if there is some beneficial effect for the soldier (cannon fodder)/ common man (work horse)...it is coincidence.
 

Goldbling

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Lonan said:
Goldbling said:
crooked_ferret said:
I would think this would be obvious.
Given a brief looking over history there are only three primary reasons for starting a war
1 - over your imaginary friend (god)
2 - because they look / act different than you (race)
3 - paper invoking the name of your imaginary friend on it (money)

the reasons become mushed and blurred by a million things, but that is basically the root of every war.
But the question was, Why would you start a war?

OT: I would start a war against anyone who is ignorant, hell even other Christians, Ignorance is most certainly not bliss. Other examples:

-Nazi's
-Rednecks
-Homophobes (Who hate homosexuals)
-Atheists who won't SHUT THE FUCK UP
-Any religious extremist group
I'm just curious, you say you would go to war with people who hate homosexuals, but would you go to war with people who like other males under the age of 18? I read an article on the CBC website recently (couldn't find it again for the life of me) which said that a man from Montreal was sentenced to 14 years in an American prison for possesing "child" pornography (as young as 12! When people are at their mental prime! Thus the show "Are you Smarter than 5th Grader?") and inviting a 13 year old male into a hotel room with him, who, by the words alone, you can tell came by his own will. But there were all these comments saying "throw away the key" "what a sicko!" "let the perv rot!"
I was repulsed. I know that sometimes older males will molest younger males, but that seems to hardly have been the case here. The hatred was tremendous.

I was cruel to a gay person in my class at the all boys boarding school I went to, because it is in my nature. Once he was ranting about how younger kids kept asking him what it was like being bisexual (which he claimed he was, I think he was homosexual) and he said "I'm a girl in a guys body." At the time I thought that he was an absolute abomination, a monstrosity. But the truth is he didn't deserve that at all. I'm sure he's attracted to males under the age of 18, and that doesn't mean he has an incurable "mental disease" as one person said. Would you go to war with those people? I am very curious.

*edit*

Just to be clear, my main contempt is that I always hated that I was treated as a sub-human incapable of making decisions when I was under 18, it pissed me off so much. Now that I am 19, I focus my hatred on those who still oppress people under the age of 18. Eighteen is more than half of what people lived to be just a few hundred years ago, so biologically, eighteen is old, and the idea of telling say, a 15 year old boy he can't have sex with a 25 year old woman is ridiculous. Sorry for the side rant.
This is complicated. If you are asking if I would go to war with child molesters then I would say no. They would be put on the front line of my army along with rapists and murderers, and if they survived they would win their freedom, but if they ever committed such an act again they would be thrown back in prison for the remainder of their life.

But in a more real scenario I would say yes and no. If the sex was consensual and not forced I see nothing wrong with it, even if it is Homosexual sex (two men/two women) but I would say no one under the age of 15. At 15 you should have a rough understanding of how the world is and you should be strong enough to say "yes" or "no" as you please. If the sex is not consensual or if it is with persons under 15 then that person shall receive the maximum scentance and if it has happened on more than one occasion, that person will receive life in prison.
 

D088Y

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in order to create one unionised goverment capable of sorting every problem on earth by taking resources from the appropriate part of the earth and using them in the parts of the earth that require them.
 

geldonyetich

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Ousting corruption so deeply dug into the hearts and minds of the public that it cannot be removed through any other means.

This was the real World War II reason. (Granted, we didn't have to start that war, they brought it to us.) A nationalistic sentiment had wormed its way into the people's hearts in the Axis powers that had to be put down like the rabid dog it was. Such was how red hot it burned, it took the invention and application of the atomic bomb to snuff it out entirely.

I feel we might be getting closer to that again in terms of how well the neocons have select parts of the country wrapped around their little fingers. This is a problem [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing] - it's so overtly corrupt in practice as require action. It makes me wish I had a few cruise missiles on hand for certain senators and their more affluent supporters. However, hopefully we'll be able to rid of them through more civilized means [http://www.wdsu.com/news/20294717/detail.html] instead of a second civil war. (What a rude awakening one of those would be to a society so sedated by modern entertainment.)
 

Heytred

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'Cause I iz da Big Boss and I sez dat da Humies need ta getz kick'd. So ya buncha filthy maggotz itz WWWAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Or beer, one or the other.
 

SimpleChimp

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The best reason to start a war? To slim down the surplus population.

The worse reason to start a war? Trying to increase the surplus population. Infact if you start a war trying to improve the enviroment, or economy, or anything (other than freedom, liberty, and democracy (snort)) Because simply wars kill and destroy everything.

Another horrible reason to start a war is if you have to many bullets and you can't pay soldiers to hunt animals, so you figure hunting your neighbor is just as good. That and he has a hot wife that you want to scam on so you say fuck it and send over the calvary.
 

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plastic_window said:
"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity".
If you know a better way of making more virgins I would like to hear it.

Alas this is not original to me, I saw it on http://thefunniest.info/

As for reasons to fight a war, ensuring the comfort and economic success of one's country men is a good enough reason. When the world finally runs out of oil we don't want a bunch on angry Iraqis sitting on the last remaining stockpile just because our embargo prevented them from selling it.
 

SimpleChimp

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Goldbling said:
crooked_ferret said:
I would think this would be obvious.
Given a brief looking over history there are only three primary reasons for starting a war
1 - over your imaginary friend (god)
2 - because they look / act different than you (race)
3 - paper invoking the name of your imaginary friend on it (money)

the reasons become mushed and blurred by a million things, but that is basically the root of every war.
But the question was, Why would you start a war?

OT: I would start a war against anyone who is ignorant, hell even other Christians, Ignorance is most certainly not bliss. Other examples:

-Nazi's
-Rednecks
-Homophobes (Who hate homosexuals)
-Atheists who won't SHUT THE FUCK UP
-Any religious extremist group
That is the optimy of Bigotry. You would kill athiest who were adimant about their beliefs? Or just athiests that talked alot?

You would kill rednecks? Why, because they seem less educated or because of the cousin fucking stereotype?

And Religious Extremists? Like the bible belt christians? The Vatican? Orthodox Jews?

You would also kill the ignorant?

Ignorance is the lack of knowledge or information. I can understand killing people who are shown the information and openly regect it, but to kill people that never even got the memo?
 

somethingprofound

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To bring the world under one order as a peaceful unified whole... under my command of course.

the only other wars i'll participate in are the ones against the 'normal', and the ignorant (in a peaceful, bizzare, dancecore, sometimes brutal demonstration of appropriate force)
 

zacaron

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a large respository of resources, capital or tech that would be profitable to build an army and capture