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Debate Score:75
Arguments:50
Total Votes:90
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Is war always bad?

Yes

Side Score: 41
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No

Side Score: 34
6 points

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.

Side: yes
4 points

War is bad and will always be bad.

'The Victor Creates the foe,

The defeated live in pain

The peaceful dwell in happiness

Neither victors nor defeated.'

Side: yes
2 points

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.

Side: yes

War only causes death and destruction. There is no such thing as a good war.

Side: Yes
1 point

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.

Something good was done, something bad was done.

Side: yes
1 point

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.

Side: Yes
1 point

yes war is always bad and it can heart many people there is nothing good in war.War was bad it is and it shall remain

Side: Yes
1 point

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Side: Yes

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.

Side: yes
ThePyg(6738) Disputed
1 point

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.

PS, i didn't down vote you.

Side: No
debatesRcool(44) Disputed
1 point

YOu said "the holocaust was before war"

War has been around since human civilization..

Side: Yes
0 points

GERMANY was at war during the Holocaust Pyggy!

Your take on Penicillin is incorrect...please read the link.

I didn't think you did downvote me! Just another asshole on the downward mission.

Supporting Evidence: Discovery of Penicillin (en.wikipedia.org)
Side: yes
luv2laf987(11) Disputed
1 point

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.

Side: get your facts straight
3 points

War defeated the holocaust.

War helped in the creation of penicillin.

War created America.

War saved all of Western Civilization.

etc.

Side: No
1 point

i think it can be good ww2 stamped out the Nazis and some time a war is needed to cull the humans down abit

Side: No
2 points

Yeah and it also helped to end the great depression.

Side: No
2 points

funny thing is that the great depression was started by war

Side: No
FlyingWings(1) Disputed
2 points

But WW1 caused Germany to begin to prosectue the Jews and created the Nazis.

Side: Yes
1 point

Hey what if the U.S. didn't fight the british?

Or the Nazis

This is stupid.

Side: Revolution - ever heard of it
keeleecona(3) Disputed
2 points

Mohatma Gahndi gained independence from Brittain without killing anyone, and he strengthend India's economy and government.

Side: Yes
1 point

It's always bad as in idealy it should be avoided,

but there have been plenty of wars that were worth fighting, enough examples have been sited I think.

Side: No
1 point

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’.

Side: No
luv2laf987(11) Disputed
2 points

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.

Side: get your facts straight
keeleecona(3) Disputed
1 point

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.

Side: Yes
1 point

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.

Side: get your facts straight

The merit of war cannot be defined in black or white. It is always bad for some, but good for others.

Side: No
1 point

the german guy who developed flying bombs later on went to america to help develop the space rocket

Side: No
1 point

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.

Side: No
bobbyjohn(44) Disputed
1 point

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.

Side: Yes
1 point

war is evil we dont win but we dont loose we just sit and wait for the government to come up with a disgusting plan to only loose a couple more lives

Side: No
1 point

You deserve a clap mister or sister!:) i agree with you fully and i'm only writing this so it uses up 50 characters!:)

Side: No
1 point

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?

Side: No
bobbyjohn(44) Disputed
1 point

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.

Side: Yes
0 points

Hey I just noticed, where are all the liberals in this debate?

I guess there would be allot more if the title was:

Is war always hard? -or- Can war be bad?

The yes side would be packed. (;

Side: Revolution - ever heard of it
Pineapple(1449) Disputed
2 points

Liberal ≠ Stupid.

We understand that war is necessary. We just don't think EVERY war is necessary.

Side: No
JakeJ(3255) Disputed
1 point

Well, thats correct. Thats why I said the debate would attract more liberals if the title said can war be bad.

You just agreed with me.

I was just joking and pointing out that liberals like to complain about war.

Oh and you're tagged as "yes" so technically you contradicted yourself. (; only technically though

Side: No
luv2laf987(11) Disputed
1 point

so do conservatives, such as myself, thank you. Conservative ≠ war enthusiast

Side: get your facts straight