In my opinion, I HATE WARS.
Private (Pte) James (Jim) Martin (1901–1915)
I know it's cliché and all, but I really do.
I myself, detest arguing, though ironically, I used to be on the debating team at my previous schools. But getting back onto the topic, I don't understand, how someone could get so angry, that they HAVE to involve and affect everyone around them. I don't understand how someone could get away with affecting innumerable people with their own little argument (okay maybe in some cases, not very little. But still.). Also, I especially don't understand why they do not have the initiative to solve their problems inside a court or by verbal encounter. (By the way, if anyone can answer any of those questions, you're very welcome to, here.) You see, I'm very visual (which is very useful in memorising chemistry equations, but not a very wanted skill in horror stories or movies :P), so I could use a bit too much of empathy than I want to in war stories and tragedies. I would visualise how scared the soldiers in their trenches would be, whether they would have a family, or even an engaged lover endlessly waiting and worrying for their return. Do you know that the youngest soldier to enlist and lie about his age was 14 years old [5]? Imagine how scared HE would be! And ALL those innocent bystanders injured and even KILLED; and think of all the lost childhoods and wasted lives all because of someone's PROBLEM! Don't you think how selfish war creators can be?!
Sorry. Rant over.
I myself, detest arguing, though ironically, I used to be on the debating team at my previous schools. But getting back onto the topic, I don't understand, how someone could get so angry, that they HAVE to involve and affect everyone around them. I don't understand how someone could get away with affecting innumerable people with their own little argument (okay maybe in some cases, not very little. But still.). Also, I especially don't understand why they do not have the initiative to solve their problems inside a court or by verbal encounter. (By the way, if anyone can answer any of those questions, you're very welcome to, here.) You see, I'm very visual (which is very useful in memorising chemistry equations, but not a very wanted skill in horror stories or movies :P), so I could use a bit too much of empathy than I want to in war stories and tragedies. I would visualise how scared the soldiers in their trenches would be, whether they would have a family, or even an engaged lover endlessly waiting and worrying for their return. Do you know that the youngest soldier to enlist and lie about his age was 14 years old [5]? Imagine how scared HE would be! And ALL those innocent bystanders injured and even KILLED; and think of all the lost childhoods and wasted lives all because of someone's PROBLEM! Don't you think how selfish war creators can be?!
Sorry. Rant over.
But here's a good passage of what war is from one's point of view (similar to yours truly):
"The politicians' stirring phrases are meant to keep our eyes averted from the reality of war -- to make us imagine heroic young men marching in parades, winning glorious battles, and bringing peace and democracy to the world.
But war is something quite different from that.
It is your children or your grandchildren dying before they're even fully adults, or being maimed or mentally scarred for life. It is your brothers and sisters being taught to kill other people -- and to hate people who are just like themselves and who don't want to kill anyone either. It is your children seeing their buddies' limbs blown off their bodies.
It is hundreds of thousands of human beings dying years before their time. It is millions of people separated forever from the ones they loved.
It is the destruction of homes for which people worked for decades. It is the end of careers that meant as much to others as your career means to you.
It is the imposition of heavy taxes on you and on other Americans and on people in other countries -- taxes that remain long after the war is over. It is the suppression of free speech and the jailing of people who criticize the government.
It is the imposition of slavery by forcing young men to serve in the military.
It is goading the public to hate foreign people and races -- whether Arabs or Japanese or Cubans. It is numbing our sensibilities to cruelties inflicted on foreigners.
It is cheering at the news of foreign pilots killed in their planes, of young men blown to bits while trapped inside tanks, of sailors drowned at sea.
Other tragedies inevitably trail in the wake of war. Politicians lie even more than usual. Secrecy and cover-ups become the rule rather than the exception. The press becomes even less reliable.
War is genocide, torture, cruelty, propaganda, dishonesty, and slavery.
War is the worst obscenity government can inflict upon its subjects. It makes every other political crime -- corruption, bribery, favoritism, vote-buying, graft, dishonesty - seem petty. " [6]
So I'll just leave you with the thought of this.
And you're very welcome to send me your view on this, right here. :)
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