Some philosophers have argued that the death and destruction of war are necessary components to a meaningful life or even the ability to love.
Life as mere existence isn' t very important. Instead, what is important is a life worth living. It is in people' s interests to preserve their life, but also aspects of life which give it significance: land, family, ideas, value, religion, etc.
Meaningful existence for human beings entails a willingness to preserve those aspects of human life which give it meaning. People are willing to fight, die and kill for their values.
Only to certain individuals.....not all of us....I think once you experience the negative side, a person should learn from it, thus knowing the pain he/she felt if purposely done...most people however do not.
Like what is said History repeats it's self...
Learn from your mistakes.
Reap what you Sow.
Maybe man is doomed, but I'm not....What ever I encounter I chose to make a constant choice of happiness....I cannot change the world...Only myself and those I affect....If I truly knew that I was causing another pain....I would hope they would let me know...because I am one to put others feelings first....unless they're unbalanced or something....
Conflict HAS to happen. Mollecules constantly persist moving, to become stagnent is to mean ceartain death. What people want is peace, but do they even know what peace is? Peace comes to us in small doses like family and lovers, there is a ying and yang that binds our exsistance. The masculine force of yang may sound bad because it's our anger and resentments, but without it ying would be far too powerful to control, and we would become stagnent. And de-exsist..
I don't think mankind will ever end. I think there will be ups and downs, wars and alliances, and people will live thier lives day to day. Trying to gather as many small doses of peace as they can to make it all worthwhile.
We see in today's youth how they are very ungrateful, spoiled children. Even the adults think they deserve everything. This is an example of why the yang, the evil, HAS to exsist. Things are becoming stagnant. And we're starting to lose the ying, the good, that comes with those small doses..
If you had wanted peace, you wouldn't have been born.
What you want is change, you want to play a part in the grand design and make your own impact, through choices and beliefs, actions and those around you. You will ultimately change the universe. that's what life is all about change. The most dangerous thing is stagnation.
Man, in terms of emotional and intellectual capabilities, is far beyond any creature that we are currently aware of but with this knowledge comes with responsibility. I personally believe that man is capable of far more than any animal in terms of what we can do with beneficial aspects of our knowledge.
I am sure humanity will realise this before we destroy ourselves.
Originally posted by Storm
Some philosophers have argued that the death and destruction of war are necessary components to a meaningful life or even the ability to love.Life as mere existence isn' t very important. Instead, what is important is a life worth living. It is in people' s interests to preserve their life, but also aspects of life which give it significance: land, family, ideas, value, religion, etc.
Meaningful existence for human beings entails a willingness to preserve those aspects of human life which give it meaning. People are willing to fight, die and kill for their values.
You are exactly right. This is largely Hegel's argument in the Master/Slave Dialectic chapter in "Phenomenology of the Mind", not to mention most of the ancient world's as well, before the modern world stopped believing in things such as "meaning."