The Bhagavad Gita is a magnificent book that records a five thousand year old sacred conversation. It has been read and studied throughout the centuries and always provides new light. Every time I read it or study a verse something newer and deeper is revealed. My appreciation for the conversation between Arjuna and Krishna ever increases. 

We find the ancient Vedic culture, which has a lot going for it for peaceful happy human society, there are different prescribed duties according to ones natural inclinations and also according to one's stage of life. 

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There are only remnants of this system referred to as varnashrama dharma visible now in India. Over time it has become distorted and so is now counterproductive. A symptom of the age we live as in described in the Vedic literature as the Age of Kali Yuga. The Age of quarrel. Is it any wonder there are so many conflicts everywhere.

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The Age of Quarrel ironically enough began at this very point of human culture. Arjuna and the battle of Kuruksetra. This was the bigger reason Arjuna was hesitant to fight. The Battle that ensued, the Battle of Kuruksetra, ushered in the Age of Quarrel. He was aware of the consequences of such a world war and it was indeed a world war in the ancient world that resulted in the destruction of the leaders of all the nations at that time. 

But here he is being advised by Krishna who is directly his spiritual adviser to fight. It is his duty. To shirk his duty, even as influential as Arjuna was in the world at that time, would not prevent the Age of Quarrel from taking hold. It was time in the cosmic sense for a winter. Better he should act nobly in spite of the difficulties. His personal example of responsibility would be far more valuable for those in the future seeking answers to their own dilemmas than if out some sentiment he abandoned his duties as a general. 

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"Perform your prescribed duty, for action is better than inaction. A man cannot even maintain his physical body without work." Bhagavad Gita As It Is 3.8

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link to the text: https://prabhupadabooks.com/bg/3/8