Yes, war is hell. People on both sides pay the price of the destruction. But it is extremely naive to say that no war is ever justified.
Unfortunately, there have been situations in the past where nations, tribes, or leaders, whether kings or dictators, have decided to take by force from some other entity of humans. In other words, aggressors who are willing to resort to force to get their way.
So what is the target of such aggression to do? Especially when the agenda of the aggressor might include exterminating the target.
World War 2 is the obvious example. Do you like the thought of a world where an Adolf Hitler has won, and everybody's speaking German, the Master Race has exterminated the Jews, the gays, the gypsies, the Slavic peoples, etc., and the rest of us are treated as Nazi serfs?
Or a world where an individual who is willing to resort to force can rob, rape, and kill at will? The police, the courts, the prison authorities, are merely the instruments of civilized society to stop those aggressive individuals who would wage war upon innocent citizens.
The police sometimes *have* to use force to thwart the aggression of the criminal. Unfortunately, they don't always succeed, like in the instance of the criminal who opened fire at Virginia Tech earlier this week. But if they had been able to intervene earlier, do you think this criminal would have laid down his murder weapons if he was asked real nicely? Or if a social worker had explained to him that to continue shooting people was a bad thing to do?
Unfortunately, it takes more than gathering around the camp fire, joining hands, and singing "kumbaya" to preserve human dignity and human rights in this world.
If the Japanese Empire had conquered India, I'm afraid Ghandi would have found them much less tolerant of his non-violent protest methods than the British were. I expect he would have been quickly beaten to a pulp, and beheaded in public, as an example to anyone else in India who was thinking of not instantly obeying each and every order of the conquerors.
Luckily for you, the Allies *won* World War 2. Yes, at great cost. But at least you are now free to proclaim your naive pacifist doctrines and, apparently, disparage their sacrifices as being merely the actions of children fighting over a toy.
I'm tempted to say "shame on you!" However, you are probably the product of a touchy-feely education system that has never properly explained to you the sacrifices made by generations of your ancestors to get you in your current pampered position. So instead, I'll say "shame on the education system!" It's evidently let you down bad.
On a more positive note, I can say that your grammar, spelling, and ability to lay out your case (however ill-founded factually and ill-conceived logically) is good. |
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