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How can war still exist?

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There’s so much talk of war, and war crimes right now – discussion about who has visited what horror upon whom, and whether such horrors are legal. It makes my heart shrink into my bones.

Why do questions like these still have to exist?

How can we claim to be ‘playing fair’ at all when we bring death and destruction to another? How can any of us walk tall when others are ripped apart by loss, and their homes cratered with corpses? Where is the honour in deliberately obliterating the hope and livelihoods of millions caught up in the storm of our actions? Where is the pride in shredding the souls of others, in stamping bootnails and bombs into generations of families? What is the justification for any form of warfare, regardless of whether it is legal or not?

Surely there is none, for we know in the deepest layers of our common humanity that the cruelty and violence of war should be banished from all lands for all times, for the sake of us all.

Copyright Georgie Knaggs & The Phraser 2023

4 thoughts on “How can war still exist?”

    • Like you say there’s no doubting the existence of aggression and all those tendencies you list, I just feel that we’ve known about them for so long, surely we might have managed to come up with a better response than more violence? How can so many governments and their experts know so much about the needs of children in their early years, and yet still resort to bombardment, or some form of counter-violence, as a response to aggression? It is happening in so many places around the world. To me it feels bizarre that there is still no better response.

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  2. Couldn’t agree more. It’s a very sad world out there. And what’s even sadder is that we’ve learnt nothing from history because we keep repeating the actions of the past.

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