Pros And Cons Of War

War: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly War. We’ve all heard about it. Some may have even experienced it. It’s not a joking matter. People are dying for reasons some of them do not know about. Kids in Middle Eastern countries are called upon to fight for their countries and many of them do not come back alive. For some, war can be a hard subject to converse about. This, however, is not about a veteran’s war experience or a tear jerking story about a young kid who couldn’t survive the war he was roped into. This is about the many ways war, in and of itself, can be beneficial and harmful to people, countries, and the world. We may not want to believe that war, like many other things, can be beneficial to us. Yet, we all know how it could harm us …show more content…
Not only have we had wide scale “world” wars, but we have had many small civil wars. Typically the causes of war are injustice and money, among many other things. Some of these situations escalate to the point of a world war, for example World War II. There was great injustice with the rise of dictators in Europe and many other countries had to step in and intervene. We went into the war attempting to fix the social injustices against the Jews and many other people. After a hard fought war, hopefully, we are able to eliminate certain causes of this injustice. This is a positive effect of war. Let’s look at examples. In the Civil War, America was divided between the North and the South. The Southerners were treating African Americans with great injustice. This war, a matter of freedom, eradicated the African Americans from being owned as slaves. A war was the way we chose to handle the situation. The positive effect of the war was the end of brutal slavery. World War II saw the end of the Holocaust and social injustices against the Jewish. Going to war is sometimes the only way to be taken seriously. You can’t just say “you can’t do that. Stop.” and expect people in power to