The war or, in other words, the
experience of bringing others to death and to endanger your own life cannot be
understood by yourself more than the experience of your own death. And this
personal experience of death never can be really understood, but only felt as a
fear or a release.
On the contrary, if you are
afraid of death, the death becomes even more difficult for being understood in
its characteristic of being unavoidable.
For this reason, we fail to
explain death by ourselves and leave it to be a subject matter of the science
of biology.
The war as an experience akin to
personal death follows the same pattern. It cannot be understood by those who
wage it or suffer because of its cruel effects. All of them can only feel it
and should leave its reasons to be understood in the frame of the science of political
conditions of a nation.
Nonetheless, all of them can feel
the war. And all are wrong when they take their feelings of sufferance or power
as reasons for establishing the reasons of condemning or accepting the war.
A war is just or unjust only in
respect of the interpretation of political conditions. It is just when the
political order is endangered by enemies and their annihilation is the best
solution. It is unjust when its fundamental purpose is the intention to affect
the feelings of their enemies by making them to suffer (and this is the case of
wars carried on against the civilians). And also, the war is unjust
when it is a form of revenging feelings of sufferance by disregarding the
political conditions.
