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Why does someone "have to" do it? The only defense a military offers is against other militaries. So at best, soldiers defend against their own kind, at worst t
by PavlovsCat 12y ago
Why does someone "have to" do it? The only defense a military offers is against other militaries. So at best, soldiers defend against their own kind, at worst they maul civilians. It doesn't solve any problem, just the one it creates, and that only partially.
- tormeh 12y agoYou're answering your own question. Any state without a military gets steamrolled by someone with. Now, in the nuclear and globalized world we live I'm currently, this may no longer be true, but you'll still be bullied around, at least.
- PavlovsCat 12y agoI don't think along those lines. I don't see state A and their military on one side, and state B with their military on the other, and war profiteers somewhere else -- I see state A and B, their militaries and all war profiteers on one side, and civilians, the people who both get to die and pay for the stuff, on the other. E.g. the elites in China and the US have more in common with each other than with the populations they screw over, and those populations have more in common with each other than with their own so-called leaders. Also, if a military is only useful to defend against other militaries, and that is the actual reason it exists, how did the first military organization come into existence? They had nothing to defend against, so maybe they just made something up? Oh look, the moon is so very round today, we need to attack the neighbouring tribe before they kill us all... I think it's perfectly possible that war has always been a racket, and that Stockholm Syndrome and nothing else keeps it going.
- PavlovsCat 12y agoNo counter-arguments, 3 downvotes? Whoever that was, to each their own. At least now you, even though it may not have occured to you yourself, cannot claim it has never been brought up in your presence.