War - Some Win, Most Lose

Value of Life

In incidents all over the world that occur daily, everything possible is done to save lives. When someone is shot, they are rushed to the hospital where a team of paramedics, doctors, and nurses use every technology at their disposal to save the victims life.  When a child gets trapped in a well, fire fighters and engineers literally move heaven and earth to extract the child safely and bring him back to his family. 

Yet in war people are blown apart daily by both sides of a conflict, as if life has no value at all.  The victims are children, women, old people, and men who have nothing to do with the fight, and still bombs are dropped on their heads or suicide bombers stand in the middle of a bus or cafe and blow themselves up, along with people around them.  How is it possible that humans can do so much to save one single life in one place and time, and at the same time in another place kill hundreds and thousands of innocent people?

Billions of dollars are spent on medication and treatments to heal people, and at the same time billions of dollars are spent on military arms that kill people.  How can this happen in a modern world where computers make billions of calculations per second, an international space station circles the earth manned by astronauts from varying countries, telescopes can see objects millions of light years away, microscopes can see large molecules, and a device smaller than the size of a pack of cigarettes can store and play 20,000 songs?