Human Vice Research Paper

Humans are the most unique animal on the Earth. Unlike other animals, we are able to inflict war, cause pollution, and even drive some animals to extinction from poaching. The previous mentioned are just some of the many human vices that we can conflict upon ourselves and others. The damages of vices, such as pollution, can be extreme. For example, because of pollution from the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Russia the land is now inhabitable. However, even though our causation of pollution and causing animals to become extinct are two of important and sad human vices, the way that humans are able to cause wars are what is our biggest human vice. War has been going on for literally centuries since the foundation of the human civilization. And unlike any other species we are the only ones that can cause a mass amount of casualties over a dispute. Therefore, war should qualify as the leading human vice. If we don’t stop war than I believe that we could end up ending not just the human race but all the species on earth. With the amount of nuclear arsenals that many countries have. The human race could quite literally end itself if another conflict were to arise around two major political powers. However, taking a glance of the history of past you will find that the wars …show more content…
Even the president of the United States, Barack Obama, when speaking at an World War II event stated “People cannot live in freedom unless free people are prepared to die for it”(Meagher). On the contrary to President Obama’s statement, war should absolutely not be a reason to give up thousands of human lives. Looking at history once more, it is evident that many countries have sustained from wars for a great period of time. In addition, these countries have many of the great freedoms of countries such as the United States. To name a few, Canada, Denmark, and Switzerland. These countries were able to achieve this from abstaining from