The U.N. doesn’t have the authority to make a unilateral decision like that to begin with.
And, since they only way to enforce such a rule would be by using armed forces to stop an illegal war, you see why it’s a pointless rule.
Besides, as horrible as war is, it serves a purpose. Even “illegal” wars like invasions of sovereign nations or pogroms serve a purpose, we just don’t like those purposes usually. They still serve as a form of resolution to tensions between warring parties. Sometimes, one of those parties is aggrieved and war is the only way to prevent whatever is happening from continuing.
You can’t just ban war, war is the state of existence when all other forms of conflict resolution between populations have failed. That will never, ever go away unless humanity ceases to be diverse and complicated. As long as there are multiple cultures, nations, and peoples, there will be conflict of some kind.
What face war has may differ. We might get to a point where war is always warm or cold rather than hot. But it’s just as likely that we could end up in a state of constant warfare where a majority is steadily rejected, with violence, by the minority that objects to the differences between each other, no matter what those differences are.
Let’s use a pretty current possibility. Let’s say Thad the march to fascism here in the US succeeds. A president, Congress, and Supreme Court all dominated by the hate filled groups takes control and enacts laws that prevent their removal through other means.
Should we not rise up? Should we just shrug and say “oh well, they win, we can’t have war.”?
No. You fucking beg, borrow, or steal weaponry and you take the nazis/fascists down, just like the world has had to keep doing for most of a century. Yeah, you’ll be fighting in an asymmetrical war, but that’s still better than rolling over.
I mean, if would be better to rise up before things get to the point where there’s the capability to dominate current structures, but that ain’t gonna happen.
You can’t wave the wand of law and banish war. The only way to banish war is shifting to a single, unified consciousness. That’s impossible.
The U.N. doesn’t have the authority to make a unilateral decision like that to begin with.
And, since they only way to enforce such a rule would be by using armed forces to stop an illegal war, you see why it’s a pointless rule.
Besides, as horrible as war is, it serves a purpose. Even “illegal” wars like invasions of sovereign nations or pogroms serve a purpose, we just don’t like those purposes usually. They still serve as a form of resolution to tensions between warring parties. Sometimes, one of those parties is aggrieved and war is the only way to prevent whatever is happening from continuing.
You can’t just ban war, war is the state of existence when all other forms of conflict resolution between populations have failed. That will never, ever go away unless humanity ceases to be diverse and complicated. As long as there are multiple cultures, nations, and peoples, there will be conflict of some kind.
What face war has may differ. We might get to a point where war is always warm or cold rather than hot. But it’s just as likely that we could end up in a state of constant warfare where a majority is steadily rejected, with violence, by the minority that objects to the differences between each other, no matter what those differences are.
Let’s use a pretty current possibility. Let’s say Thad the march to fascism here in the US succeeds. A president, Congress, and Supreme Court all dominated by the hate filled groups takes control and enacts laws that prevent their removal through other means.
Should we not rise up? Should we just shrug and say “oh well, they win, we can’t have war.”?
No. You fucking beg, borrow, or steal weaponry and you take the nazis/fascists down, just like the world has had to keep doing for most of a century. Yeah, you’ll be fighting in an asymmetrical war, but that’s still better than rolling over.
I mean, if would be better to rise up before things get to the point where there’s the capability to dominate current structures, but that ain’t gonna happen.
You can’t wave the wand of law and banish war. The only way to banish war is shifting to a single, unified consciousness. That’s impossible.