The Fight for Morality In an Unjust World: World War II At what point do morals seem to offer less hope and reason, and anger and violence take total control? When the war goes on for six years, and one day. How much suffering, segregation, racism, violence, and psychological damage must you see before losing all hope in those around you, and the ideals you were brought up with. “All human beings are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights”, I’d like to believe this is true, but as you and so many others know is not the life many lived during World War II. In the eyes of a pacifist every and all acts of war are unjustifiable. In my eyes, the very least one can do is follow a set of rules to maintain the value of ethical morals to keep all safe.
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This seems like common knowledge that only extremists would chose as a war act. This idea is all too true, for those who have lived through these acts. They are the living, surviving the “targets of war”. In most cases those at war start with military bases as their targets. Although through the course of WWII those targets expanded onto places of industry, then to workers home, and in the end whole cities. These bombing acts as experienced in WWII killed over sixty million people, that wiped out at least three percents of the population in the 1940’s. In end these staggering numbers speak for
This seems like common knowledge that only extremists would chose as a war act. This idea is all too true, for those who have lived through these acts. They are the living, surviving the “targets of war”. In most cases those at war start with military bases as their targets. Although through the course of WWII those targets expanded onto places of industry, then to workers home, and in the end whole cities. These bombing acts as experienced in WWII killed over sixty million people, that wiped out at least three percents of the population in the 1940’s. In end these staggering numbers speak for