Read the followiing passage and then answer the questions given below: War is the worst of all evils of human civilisation. It is an ancient…
Read the followiing passage and then answer the questions given below:
War is the worst of all evils of human civilisation. It is an ancient institution which has existed for at least six thousand years. It was always wicked and usually foolish, but in the past, human race managed to live with it. Modern ingenuity has changed this drastically. Either man will abolish war or war will abolish man. In the present, it is nuclear weapons that cause the gravest danger, but bacteriological or chemical weapons may, before long, offer an even greater threat. If we succeed at any cost in abolishing nuclear weapons, our work will not be done completely. It will never be completed until we have succeeded in abolishing war for ever. To do this, we need to persuade mankind to look upon international disputes in a new intellectual and mutual way, not as contest of force or power, in which the victory goes to the side which is the most skillful in massacre, but by arbitration in accordance with agreed principles of law. It is not easy to change age-old mental habits, but this is what must be attempted. It is the destructive war that must be checked for the existence of life on earth.
Questions:
a) Why should we avoid war?
b) Why is war more dangerous at present?
c) What should we do to abolish war forever?
d) How should all international problems be solved?
e) Why should we check the destructive war at any cost?
From the BPSC Assistant Database Administrator (CSE) 2022 – Written exam, question 18 of 18.