If you consider it (with cold dispassion?), weapons that cause injuries lead to better techniques to treat those injuries, and then those techniques eventually work their way into mainstream civilian medicine.
As long as a nation seriously cares for its wounded military members — in development of surgical techniques, prosthetics, pain killers, and even psychological aid — the murderous nature of combat can perversely lead to societal good. Where then would Medical knowledge be without War? And sick to say, it thins out “excess population” a bit.
If you consider it (with cold dispassion?), weapons that cause injuries lead to better techniques to treat those injuries, and then those techniques eventually work their way into mainstream civilian medicine.
As long as a nation seriously cares for its wounded military members — in development of surgical techniques, prosthetics, pain killers, and even psychological aid — the murderous nature of combat can perversely lead to societal good. Where then would Medical knowledge be without War? And sick to say, it thins out “excess population” a bit.