Sunday, November 1, 2015
Assignment 9 Lauryn McNair
I don't believe there is a time for war, but it's also inevitable and unavoidable. War can understandably be induced when someone is waging violence on a group of people, but even that is a single-sided war, with the victim side choosing to retaliate. Sometimes wars are the only things that can get things done, because they exhaust and frighten people to the point where they are unable to or just don't want to fight back. Sometimes you have to go to war, thinking in terms of slavery and genocides. There was no other way to combat something like the holocaust, or American slavery than with violence. There are no sensible words to appeal to these people who have no care for human life. But is war morally right? No. One life is no greater or less than another, is easier said than done. But it's true. Countries have a responsibility to go war if it's going to physically protect there people (economically, it gets a little iffy), avoid further or future harm, or when it uses "democracy" for a reason for war when it really has it's own economic gains at heart. There aren't any alternatives to war. Violence is a basic, primal human instinct that we've always used to show dominance and power. Is it right? No. But trying to find an alternative for it, would be like trying to find an alternative for oxygen.
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