Talk:World War I/@comment-92.15.129.47-20141025211040/@comment-1509826-20141027003802

It really depends on how you look at it.

It shook up Europe and changed the world forever.

And perhaps as sad as it was, perhaps it wasn't in vain. It let people truly know for the first time just how dangerous the weaponary they had created was, and what sheer destruction they could now create.

After all the very reason it occured was down the agreements every country had made, so that war seemed impossible cause it require everyone going to war at once. Its just none of them truly understood the sheer horror they could bring, and so were a little bit to leniant with there conserns.

So perhaps it was a good thing it occured in 1914. And gave everyone the wake up call they needed to the dangers that were ahead (sure it didn't stop WW2, but after it every country was a lot more careful about going to war). So perhaps in the long run it did help. But who honestly knows?

In the end, an entire generation was lost. Millions of were left lying in the mud. And it was a true demonstration of hell on earth.

But perhaps its best not think about such things, perhaps its simply best to remember that it was a conflict where really no one truly won. And a lot of fathers, mothers, sons, and daugthers were left to cry when it ended.