Thursday, February 21, 2008
Response to post 1
It’s OK not to be super interested in studying war. After all it’s odd enough that there are people like me that actually enjoy studying a subject about death and violence. I think you made some interesting philosophical points about war however. I believe that there are things that can be said about wars in general that do not necessarily have to be Vietnam specific. I agree with you that there will always be wars as long as there are differing opinions. It is human nature to fight for our beliefs and survival. Humans are bred to protect themselves from any threat to their health or comfort as almost all animals are. Is war an absolute necessity to our survival? Which one of our survivals?
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Sure from one perspective war is necessary for our survival, for the survival of the mind. If everyone is stagnant and the world is perfect there is nowhere to go but down. If you are on top all of the time there is no room for growth of mind, opinions, beliefs, morals, direction...etc. There would be no such things as total peace, we are different, and these differences give us peace and war all in the same. Not everyone sees blue as blue or green as green. We lead our lives based on the teachings of the ones arounds us, so in a sense what we are taught what our parents think which were influenced by what they were taught by someone who had different opinions...you see where I am going.
And it isn't odd that you like studying dealth and violence. It too is a part of us. If if makes you feel better, I sat and watched an autopsy and thought about how hungry I was...see you are not strange. And I would like to know and study more about the opinons of war sure...if it was presented as opinions instead of facts. Or maybe not...I don't know.
Leah, Leah, I had no idea you were so postmodern, such the relativist philosopher...
While not everyone sees a shade of blue in exactly the same way, or imagines the same shade when they see or hear the word "blue" and while the word for the color we know as blue is a different word from one language to the next such that there can be cultural misunderstandings about what is being conveyed, blue is a definable sensory commodity that can be codified by 3 principal color receptors on a defined chromatic scale (chromatics is the science of color, a whole science devoted to studying and codifying the visual perceptual properties of the phenomena of light and the physics of electromagnetic radiation).
So while some people might be seeing blue differently than others see it, or imagining or remembering or refering to it differently, there is actual-factual agreement on what "blue" is.
I'm not a very postmodern girl myself...
;)
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