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It is always going to end in innocent lives being taken early ( collateral damage ). The outcome may seem fantastic but you cannot forget all of those lives that are lost so if you count collateral damage added onto the prodigious amount of casualties that was causes then yes war is always bad, the outcome may not be so bad but the means of getting to the outcome is bad.
I said getting to the outcome always costs innocent lives, did I say the outcome itself is bad? No I did not, I said that in the means of getting to the outcome innocent lives are lost. You wanna use the holocaust OK what about Hiroshima and Nagasaki? That killed more than 200 thousand people how many of those living in that CITY do you think were in the military? I think that killing hundreds of thousands of innocent was a bad thing that was obviously related to the war.
was it GOOD that the holocaust ended even though many died in the war? or was it bad that many died in the war, even though the holocaust ended.
you see, War INCLUDES the outcome, so you HAVE TO include the outcome when deciding war was bad or not.
and dropping the A-Bomb not only helped save many American Troop's lives, it also saved many Russian lives. It made America safer now that it was known as an official super power.
the questions is - are people dying every day and living in tough conditions, and people loosing a father, mother, sister, brother, son, daughter or friend because of war? this always happens in war, and if you agree that is Bad, hence why war is always bad, it has its benefits, but its losses are unforgivable.
Every war will lead a new war. This vicious circle will not stop. The winning will be conquered. The loser will again try to conquer. War may indeed have a positive effect. But it is not worth the sacrifice undertaken.
War is completly irrational. 85% of people killed in wars are cilvilians. 5% of our US GDP goes to war. Thats alot. take the war on terror. It's lasted 12 years. We have spent 4.2 trillion dollars on that war. 236000 people have died, 6000 of which are US soldiers. 87% of people there don't agree with the taliban. It took 40 minutes to kill Osama Bin Laden. 5 people died. The Taliban have less than 200 followers.
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Yes, it is ALWAYS bad! All of the things that have been cited by those who believe that war is not always bad were already in a state of war when we walked in. Nothing has ever been settled or gained by war that diplomacy could not have solved prior to the onset. War has never worked and it never will.
The Holocaust was before War. In fact, they got away with so much because the other European nations tried to keep peace and make compromises.
Penicillin was created BECAUSE of the soldiers getting infections. It was never thought of to be created before hand.
Americans tried to become independent through diplomacy, but they were not listened to. Under the word of John Locke, they began war against the Tyranny of the United Kingdom.
well, yes, penicillin was being discovered before WW2. i guess i wasn't clear on what i meant though. it didn't become a pharmaceutical until it's use was realized during the war.
but, the holocaust began right after Hitler was voted in in 1933. WW2 didn't start until 1939. that's 6 years later.
okay then if you think everything can be solved DIPOLMATICALLY all the time then you go on ahead and march right up to saddam hussien and negotiate with him. why don't you? it's that easy, right? just talk with people and things will be okay because everyone on this planet is perfect and reasonable. wake up- there are EVIL people in the world who won't want to hear you TALK. it's sad, i know, and yes, lives are lost. i wish it could be different. i wish my dad didn't have to sacrifice his life so people like you can have the freedom to say he was wrong. but thats not the way it is. some men just can't be bought, bulied reasoned, or negotiated with- some men just want to watch the world burn. dipolmatically solve that.
it was on a totally unrelated subject, I was trying to prove a point. You made an extremely illogical statement and it was basically proof to what I had told him previously regarding something to do with some debaters here.
I personally believe that, although the loss of life through war is truly regrettable, wars often need to happen in order to restore rights to the people. If thousands of people are killed through conflict, yet millions are saved, then I believe that war is justifiable, and therefore cannot agree with the statement ‘war is bad’.
I agree that war is sometimes necessary but not because of the numbers of deaths. Even if just one died and millions were saved that one death makes the whole war unjustifiable if it was unneccassary. The ratio of death to lives saved is irrelevant when attesting it is acceptable. War is sometimes justifiable because it is a necessary last resort defense.
85% of people killed are civilians. More are killed in the aftermath. soldiers go crazy after 60 days of combat. US soldiers, once home, kill a close relative at a rate of one per week. In the end, no ones whole. No ones saved.
Sadly, war is sometimes the answer. The world isn't perfect, and therefore there is bound to be great chaos. And from that blooms the Hitlers of the world. As long as there are people like him, there will be war. Some people aren't looking for anything reasonable. They can't be bought, bulied, reasoned, or negotiated with.. some people just want to watch the world burn. These are the people we defend ourselves from. War is painful, but so is life, and it will always be apart of life because it is a human action. It is a natural instinct of human kind, it is part of nature. I know it sucks but get used to it.
Without war, there would be no technology, no internet, no modern age. War is always the carrier of progress in civilizations. If considered without war we didn't have medicine, vaccinations, internet connection, more people could have been dead from illnesses, late help and so, than in wars. The progress itself, stemming mostly only from war, would have been much slower... if there would be any civilization left.
so it is just to kill millions of humans that are presently living for the benefits of future humans to live on this planet? sorry that does not sound right.
War is essentially the same as a fight, granted taken to a great scale. Not all fights are worth what is at stake, but there are many things that are most defiantly worth fighting for. If you can say that there is nothing in you feel strongly enough worth fighting for, why are you on a website that is devoted to debates?
Okay but is having a debate the same as having a full scale war? no its not. Lives are lost for what? Everything a war is used to attain could have been attained with talking and debates hence all war is bad as it is a waste of life.