The Immorality Of War- Essay, Research Paper

The Immorality of War-

War is an armed clash between nations because of hostility or

military conflicts. In simple words, war is fighting between two

sides. War, in my opinion, is useless because of its damaging results,

which will be talked about in this paper. It brings suffering and

death. Under no circumstance is war moral, even in cases of self

defense. There are just other ways to solve problems. Peace treaties

are an easy way to end war. In a peace treaty, it is easy to settle

the differences and come up with an agreement that both sides can

decide on. That way the solution can be a compromise and problems will

be fixed. Often it happens when one side can’t agree so they decide

that war is the only solution. In Israel, Jews always try to keep

peace with other nations, but the Arabs just can never compromise.

Arabs and Jews are always fighting because they just can’t come up

with a compromise. Wars are begun with many different reasons: Land

conflicts, Religious disagreements, and independence conflicts. This

is a story about my grandfather’s experience in World War II. It was

horrifying and gruesome, but the story is not as bad as it was in real

life.

In 1991, my grandfather, Mike Sabetai, was taken from his home

by the Nazis, with 17 members of his family. He was taken to a war

camp where he and other divide into groups. There were groups of

people who could use their occupations to help them survive. If you

weren’t put in one of these groups, you were immediately brought to a

gas chamber. There you would wait and be killed by gas. Luckily my

grandfather was a barber. He used his skill as a tool to stay alive.

Everyone would be woken at 5:00 am and they would have to carry heavy

things and run for miles. Then they would come back and do labor work.

One normal torturous morning, my grandfather was going about his

business and doing his work. Suddenly his name was called; he was to

be brought to the chamber. He thought that it was the end. He followed

a Nazi to the chambers. He was in a line with about six people.

Suddenly a Nazi came running in yelling not to let Mike die because he

gave good haircuts. My grandfather was saved. He still had his normal

routine of having to do his morning work, though. In 1944, my

grandfather was finally saved. He went back home to Greece where he

met my grandmother, who also had a story that goes like his story. My

grandfather returned home to find out none of the 17 members of his

family were still alive. He lost his wife and 2 kids. His parents and

brothers and sister were also dead. He lost everything and had nothing

to live for. His trauma lived throughout his life. A tattoo on his arm

always remained there. His hate for Nazis never died. Although he died

last year physically, his life really ended in 1941. War was the

traumatic dreadful for my grandfather. From this story alone, how is

it possible to understand that any human deserves to be treated like

this? N the mind of the Nazis, the Jew ruined their lives. Hitler

brainwashed the Germans in the early to middle 1930s to think that

Jews were the cause of all the problems. Although we know that it

wasn’t true the Nazis believed it. This is what lead them to the

holocaust. Israel made a law that the only people that could be

executed were the Nazis that killed Jews in the World War. This law is

still being used. This is one example of one war where people,

completely innocent, were tortured, killed, and abused for reasons

that are inhumane. In the minds of the Nazis it was the right thing to

do. In my own opinion, war can never be justifiable. There are other

ways of solving conflicts besides war. If everyone solved their

problems with fighting, where would we be now? In 19 the Arabs decided

that Israel was their land. There are many other times in history when

the Arabs have taken this view. The 6-day war is an example when

Arabls thought they should be rulers of Israel. They fought with

Israel. This war still goes on. Although it isn’t actually called

“war”, it is called “terrorism”. Terrorism is all over the streets of

Israel People are killed every day. Another reason for war was over

government. In 19 , the Vietnam War began. In this war, South Vietnam

fought to be a democratic country. North Vietnam defeated South

Vietnam. In this war alone, the United States lost 58,000 soldiers.

Most of these soldiers had family ties, children, wives, parents, and

siblings. These soldiers will be missed forever. In Vietnam, there

were many bombs. Years after the war ended, soldiers were getting

odd cases of diseases. No one knew what it was. Now we know it is

something called “agent orange.” This is a chemical that was released

by the bombs. This chemical made many soldiers suffer from pain. In

1939, World War II began. In this war, Nazis wanted to gain absolute

power. They want to control everything. They began with the Jews. They

succeeded in killing 6 million. That’s 6 million people that died for

no logical reason. They not only died, they were tortured to their

death. There just is no reason for people to have to die like that.

People shouldn’t have to die over war, especially women and children.

In the 11th and 12th centuries were the Crusades. The European

Christians wanted Israel to be the Christian homeland. The Muslims, on

the other hand, felt that it was their holy land and they didn’t have

to give it up. Most recently was the Gulf War. Iraq thought that they

could just come and take over Kuwait. Kuwait had a very good oil

supply which brought in lots of money. Iraq wanted to come and just

take it over. With help from other countries, Kuwait was able to fight

them often. In this war there were a lot of deaths and there were many

people getting sick from all the bombs. People are still getting sick.

We saw that many families were torn apart because they lost a lobed

one in the war. Bombs that we didn’t know what the effect of them

would be, were used. In the end we still won’t know what the effects

are, but there are cases that come up, that are very strange. All

these cases are examples of the immortality of war. War also results

in destruction. Rebuilding cities can cost lots of money. Rebuilding

also takes lots of time.

War is immoral for these reasons. There is just no excuse for

torture, suffering, and death. Under any circumstance, a person should

never ever kill another person. There is only one god. People aren’t

G-d. They can’t make those decisions. In the bible the Jewish nation

is always involved in war. I still don’t believe the wars they had

were moral, but according to the bible, G-d commanded Moses to fight.

In conclusion, people should not die because of conflicts between

leaders of countries. Death is very traumatizing to a person. There is

just no reason for someone to have to die, especially over issues that

aren’t even worth getting into, like the Gulf War. Iraq didn’t gain

anything by trying to take over Kuwait. No war has ever come out

positively.

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