Assignment 9: What is it good for?-Ji-Hae Kim

When you come down to it, there is no morally right or logical way to solve problems on the global scale. It would be great if we could solve all of our problems peacefully and avoid war altogether. However, it's idealistic to say that there is never a time for war. It's just unrealistic to expect every leader and person with influence to go along with what's best for the "common good". There are injustices (from our point of view) that occur, and, sometimes, there is no other way than war. Now I'm not saying that everyone in the world should go to war over every little thing, but sometimes there are moments when you have to weigh the costs of leaving something alone over the costs of war.
War happens when there's no other way around it. When there is a "great evil" happening (from our point of view), we try to negotiate our way around it. If that doesn't work, we fight. It's not morally right, so to speak, to go to war. But sometimes it's an unavoidable evil that would be "slightly less evil" than leaving the issue alone. War cannot be morally justifiable, but it still happens. There is a certain flow in the world that can't be stopped. Once people get fired up for a cause, there's no way a country can completely stay out of a conflict without causing some internal problems. Once it sparks, it burns.
Are there alternatives? If it were possible to make every influential person in the world be on the same page and compromise. Or if we ignore each other completely and avoid coming into conflict with one another. War is simply unavoidable because we can't all think the same. And some people's moral views won't let them just sit still and watch something happen.