Is War bad?

We all know the normie answer '' Yes'' but from a Veeky Forums perspective is war really bad?

Define "bad"

Depends on why is the war fought and what will it lead to. Fighting a war to preserve your existence is a necessity, but shit like WW1 was literally pointless.

It depends on the war.

war itself is neither good nor bad
all of them create suffering, but the alternatives may be worse
you can only judge individual wars

No, if people don't constantly confront each other then there's no real reason to progress in any field...

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War is certainly bad for the people who participate in it or those affected by it. However, certain kinds of questions will only ever be decided through war or at least the threat of war.

The NAP is a spook.

Left to right.
Roman Legionary
Medieval Knight
A drummer from the English Civil war or something
Another knights, possibly a crusader
A redcoat from the 18th or 19th century
A Scottish British soldier
An American soldier from the civil war? Maybe a type of British marine or something from the same era.
A British soldier in WW1 or WW2

scratch the part about the British drummer. It's probably German or Russian judging from the two headed eagle.

War is just continuation of diplomacy, or yet better, a tool used to accomplish a certain goal.

Sometimes. Sometimes it's just a senseless chimpout.

War is bad for those who die in it.
War can be good for those fighting it, giving them purpose, belonging and skills you could never acquire anywhere else
War can be good or bad for the descendants living in the countries that previously fought wars

Wow, it's fucking nothing.
>Fighting a war can be bad or good
>Living after a war can be bad or good

No it leads to huge technological advances, advances that wouldn't happen without war. That's not to mention all of the medical advancements that come about such as trauma care.

sometimes

Drummer is wrong. The neck thing means it predates the ECW. It comes from the 16th century, not the 17th iirc

there is more than 1 person and the idea of "good as a whole" is a spook

>War can only be declared by the elite
>to try and defeat other elites
>to prove who is more elite
>by sacrificing less elite
>and killing everyone who is not an elite

"iS wAr BaD?"

Depends on whose doing it. When Europeans did it, new technology arose, science and medicine advanced, and human rights and lives began to be valued as they saw the horrors of it.

Everyone else really kill each other for bullshit and never recover

its certainly bad if you have to live through it