Can a war be noble?

[TotallyHuman]

I read a chapter titled "noble war" in a novel on rrl. Got me thinking, can a war be noble?

 

[SailusGebel]

No.

 

[Poleg]

I read a chapter titled "noble war" in a novel on rrl. Got me thinking, can a war be noble?

No , in this age 99% are fought for economic reasons.

Maybe in ages past, but they have such a different reality from us and it may just be myths and Propaganda.

 

[LilRora]

I would say it can be for noble cause. But a war itself, with everything that happens during and because of it, can't be called noble.

 

[CheertheSecond]

It depends on what aspect of it you were looking at.

 

[BearlyAlive]

In theory everything can happen for a noble cause, but war is inherently economic if it isn't racist. If you break it down there's only two reasons for war:

1. "We don't like you or what you did"
2. "You have something we want"

Anyway, the cause might be noble, the process is anything but.

 

[Paul_Tromba]

Starting a war is bad but ending a war is good. Entering a war to end it quicker can be noble but war itself isn't.

 

[SailusGebel]

Starting a war is bad but ending a war is good. Entering a war to end it quicker can be noble but war itself isn't.

Bruh.

 

[BigBadBoi]

Depends on wether you're fighting a war with beings threatening to wipe out humanity

 

[georgelee5786]

The cause can be noble, yes.

 

[Rhaps]

Not anymore

 

[Mythonian]

A defensive war can be noble. For example, Ukraine defending itself from Russia.

Also, certain situations could be used to describe a war as noble. The Nazi concentration camps killing millions could easily be said to have given the other side a noble cause. Similar for the second half of the American Civil War, with the Union fighting in opposition to slavery.

 

[owotrucked]

Technically, isnt nobility supposed to collect tax and beat the shit out of people? War sounds like the noblest thing to me (only if you win tho)

 

[SailusGebel]

The Great Emu War was noble, but it's an exception to the rule.

 

[Viator]

Depends on how you classify "war." If it's a personal war between someone and some great wrong, possibly. But the more people involved, the more money gets involved, inevitable corruption follows. War can almost never be totally noble, for it can be filled with singular ignoble acts, even with the greatest of ideals. However the overall goal of the war might be noble by itself.

 

[sleeple55]

Depends mostly on what you mean by 'noble'. An indvolved noble would call supressing a peasant revolt a noble war.

There is something to be said about defensive wars and repelling slaving raids tho

 

[Lloyd]

There are just wars so yeah there can probably be a noble war too.

 

[K5Rakitan]

If the nobles are fighting it, of course!

 

[NitroxDarks]

A war for defending one's territory is noble, one can't really imagine the kind of power one's blood of one's earth can make even the sickest and less physically and mentally capable raise up.

 

[LostLibrarian]

No. War is never noble.
People might go to war for noble reasons. People might pick up the weapon and kill for noble reasons.
But war itself? No... not to me.