Conflict is a turn on, mainly because I like excuses to place with knives. ---------- Post added 12th Nov 2015 at 01:01 AM ---------- *play
I think conflict is a necessity of life. You can't avoid it. There will always be conflict. I don't think conflict is bad, it's just how some people go about conflict that is bad. If no one ever agreed to disagreed then we would be stuck living some guys idea of how to live life. And I'm not doing that, Pa-lease.
Conflict is fantastic, because life would be pretty boring otherwise. A world in which everyone agreed on everything... Sounds like a dystopia to me. Can you retain any shred of individuality like that? Or are you just effectively part of a hive-mind?
There's only been about 13 years of world peace in the 2000+ years we've lived on Earth. Conflict is good, but there are many ways of handling conflict. Talking = good, killing = bad.
There's only been about 13 years of world peace in the 2000+ years we've lived on Earth. Conflict is good, but there are many ways of handling conflict. Talking = good, killing = bad.
Without conflict, the world doesn't move forward. Too much conflict, the world moves backwards. (That is on a massive scale obviously, not talking about petty arguments with your friends.)
Peaceful conflict is good. Deadly conflict is bad. Hating someone is horrible. People should disagree, but quietly, calmly, or peacefully so. Talking is not always a good way of conflict: Spoiler Words can break your spirit or fix it, start or end hatred, improve or ruin a day, be remembered forever (if hurtful, embarrasing, or very helpful/wise) or fogotten quickly (not hurtful but not very helpful/wise)
It's a very broad question, and there are all kinds of conflicts: interpersonal conflicts, comment-section flame wars, actual wars, etc. For a conflict to be good, the intensity has to match the seriousness of the problem. The people involved have to respect one another's humanity and communicate with respect. Both sides should want to work toward the best solution, and be willing to concede the dispute if they see that they're wrong. If that can't happen, the conflict is no longer productive, and trying to communicate is pointless. Granted, that only works well with smaller-scale conflicts. If one side is advocating racism or homophobia or something like that, you can't just walk away when they won't listen to reason. You have to keep fighting to protect potential victims, even if there's only a slim chance you'll change anyone's mind. To sum it up, conflict can be productive, but it can reach a point where it's not worth it. And sometimes you have to fight no matter how unreasonable the other side gets.
I would say conflict merely is. It is how it's carried out and the reasoning behind the existence of specific conflicts that is either good or bad. The end of a conflict often creates a better world or interpersonal relationship than what existed before the conflict, so we should appreciate conflict's role in coming to that resolution. If we value the resolution of a conflict, we should be cognisant of the conflict itself. That needn't involve finding it wholly good or bad or even passing any judgement, but reducing the longevity of a conflict, especially conflict without clear-cut morality on any side, is often related merely to understanding that conflict.
It depends, I'd say. Naturally, harmony is the ideal state of things. But sometimes conflict cannot or should not be avoided. And sometimes it should. All-out war is most often better to not engage in; trying to make up at the negotiation table is a better idea. But when you've been fighting with a loved one or so, for example, and there are some bitter feelings, it's sometimes better to take the conflict head-on. There's also non-serious conflict, such as a sparring match in martial arts or so.
Conflict is good- to an extent. Mild, enlightening conflict is good. It lets people see the other side of the argument and helps them let other see their side. Extreme conflict just makes everything worse; people dying, others feeling sad and useless, people yelling at each other, it's not helpful for society.
