War Essay: War Is The Essence Of Life

War has been in the history of humans as long as we have known. When looking through certain views, war is everything, war is the essence of life. In the succession of war, if we take out war, something else will take its place, it will still have the same function as war, but will be known by another name, yet still be war. In everything going on, war is going on. From the battles fought by cells to the ones against giant corporations. It seems that anything, even humans, have no intentions to get along. However, even getting along can be considered war. It can be seen as the simplest conflict between a number of living creatures or non living. For humans, there is always a known conflict, though it may not be outrightly said. Who will get …show more content…
Fighting for the right to live and reproduce without restraint is just one of the reasons. The cells in our body have a purpose, to keep us living. They probably think in the same way we do, we are here, we do what we do. In order to do so, they must support themselves and create a new generation to continue the work. They know as we do that it will not be accomplished in our lifetime or even the exact reason why they do what they do. The next generation must pick up where we left off and continue the war. For humans, we fight the same fight. We have the sense that we are here to do something and it may not be accomplished in our lifespan but we still find it worthwhile to continue doing even if it leads to our …show more content…
To further advance the human race. “War is one of the great agencies by which human process is effected.” (Rear Admiral S. B. Luce, 672) Many of the major changes in the structure of countries has been through the act of war. In history, war has taken the divided and combined people, but also has taken the combined and divided by the thoughts and action that were already there.Take the U.S. during the civil war. Divided by the thought of having slavery and abolishing slavery. The options for anything else besides war dwindled down until it was the only that left. So the war was conducted and the side that won got to exterminate the other sides idea. It may have not been a smooth process, but it was already decided. Quickly became a sign of human progress, and lead to a few more small wars within the social society to now create what the U.S. is today. As in Troy there was change constantly going on. Deciding if Sparta wanted to be changed would depend on the way they defended themselves. Even so, their decision still changed them. .“War arouses all the latent energies of a people, stimulates them to the highest exertion and develops their mental and material resources.” (Rear Admiral S. B. Luce, 673) In it’s own way war is a form of evolution. A evolution that may not be physical but mentally. In the Mahabharata, it was time for a change, deciding what the change was became the issue. Who