***  ABOUT WAR  ***
WAR !, that necessary evil, that sometimes is not necessary, and sometimes can not be avoided.

Inside wars, the "good" warriors get a chance to do heroic things, like saving the lives of some of their friends, or saving the lives of innocent civilians. However, there are always war criminals, on both sides, who will see war as an opportunity to get away with rape, profiteering, unnecessary torture, and unnecessary killings of innocent civilians.

Wars can advance our medical technology. Doctors gain experience in treating serious injuries. And progress is made in artificial limbs and other things needed by wounded warriors. It's sad to see wounded warriors, but it's a reminder that freedom is not free. Perhaps someday machines will do must of the fighting for us. But then we will loose one of the benefits of war: Population reduction.

It might sound cruel to say that "population reduction" is a benefit of war. However, if there had been no wars in the 19th and 20th centuries, the population of the world would probably now be more than 10 billions. So metaphorically we would have been in "deep shit".

Wars can also be considered "big business". An opportunity, for the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) to test the latest weapons and war machines. And an opportunity to increase the sales of such weapons. Oil and Chemical companies, that are part of the MIC, also increase their sales (and profits) by billions of dollars per year, during wars.

Civil wars can be really bad, because we might have to fight against some friends, relatives, or neighbors. The bloodiest war fought in the U.S.A was the civil war.

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