Sorry, busy recently. ><
Well yes, peace is what most societies yearn for, and it is peaceful and good in that sense, in that no one has to suffer and die, etc etc.
But personally I believe that peace does bring some amount of harm to the society. How else to put it than 'Spare the rod, spoil the child'? Was Napoleon's reign not born out of the French Revolution? Did Alexander the Great, or Genghis Khan, not rise to prominence out of bloodshed?
Let's take Singapore right now, for example. Our last war was WWII, and we've had 'peace' ever since. But its because of such peace that apathy breeds in our society. No one wants to be even vaguely involved in politics, and we convince ourselves that civic service is, in fact, civil service, when in fact it isn't. No one openly questions the government, them having put in place the Sedition Act and so forth. Sure, we're peaceful, but are we moving?
In essence, I'm the kind of person who believes that progress can only come through constant change and conflict, and peace is, in certain aspects to me, sometimes degrading to society. So yeah.
And yeah, Aza's nice. ^^
Well yes, peace is what most societies yearn for, and it is peaceful and good in that sense, in that no one has to suffer and die, etc etc.
But personally I believe that peace does bring some amount of harm to the society. How else to put it than 'Spare the rod, spoil the child'? Was Napoleon's reign not born out of the French Revolution? Did Alexander the Great, or Genghis Khan, not rise to prominence out of bloodshed?
Let's take Singapore right now, for example. Our last war was WWII, and we've had 'peace' ever since. But its because of such peace that apathy breeds in our society. No one wants to be even vaguely involved in politics, and we convince ourselves that civic service is, in fact, civil service, when in fact it isn't. No one openly questions the government, them having put in place the Sedition Act and so forth. Sure, we're peaceful, but are we moving?
In essence, I'm the kind of person who believes that progress can only come through constant change and conflict, and peace is, in certain aspects to me, sometimes degrading to society. So yeah.
And yeah, Aza's nice. ^^
~We, the atheist, in creating a purpose for ourselves where there was none, are greater than God himself.~
