Obvious Line between Murder and Heroism
Wars are the most difficult, terrible and devastating experience in human history. Although various negative effects of wars have been observed throughout the ages, there are still several people who consider wars as something grand and heroic. But I consider that wars are murder instead of heroism. Wars cause physical, psychological destruction on humans and racial, religious, sectarian hatred among societies.
Physical destruction on humans is, doubtless, the most known and feared effect of wars. İncreased world population, combined with huge armies and modern killing machines (explosives, machine guns, chemical weapons, etc.) have made
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War has been proven to be a deeply scarring experience for many soldiers. Of course, nothing can prepare a person for warfare, seeing close friends die and narrowly escape death themselves. For instance, the First World War is associated with the syndrome called shell shock. This was originally believed to have a physical origin, caused by the impact of loud shelling. However, it became clear that soldiers who had never been exposed to shells were developing the same symptoms. Shell shock was defined as a neurosis, and there was little sympathy for shell-shocked soldiers. Due to shell shock, some soldiers, refused to fight and were shot for cowardice, while others suffered the effects of shell shock for many years afterwards. In the First World War, 306 British soldiers were executed for cowardice. There are different diagnoses try to get under control the psychological impact of wars. The most recent war syndromes include Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), used after 1980 to explain the effect of war on soldiers and Gulf War syndrome, experienced mainly by American and British soldiers who fought in the 1991 Gulf War. As can be understood from the examples, these kind of disorders could be as serious as physical diseases, but unfortunately soldiers suffering from these diseases were not taken seriously by their great …show more content…
That’s why, I think people whoever attempts to start a war is the head of murder. Nazi Germany killed millions of innocent people. We now call that murder. It was no more murder than war is, given that their killing was codified by law. There is no such a thing as good and just war. Being in the winner side can make happy some people. But İf thousands of people die, there is no winner. Being a martyr can be a good enough consolation for some people but in my opinion, the life of living things should come before everything. Heroism or martyrdom is a lie, told by people who wants to justify wars. The line between murder and heroism is not a thin line. The line is very
How do you think war impacts soldiers? I believe that there are two different effects war can have on a soldier, a psychological and a physical one. One disorder involved with war is Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, in All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul Bäumer, the narrator, tells of his experiences in World War I and the term associated with soldiers who have been corrupted by the war is “shell-shocked”. In my essay I will talk about the impact war has had on Paul, and how it 's affecting soldiers today.
There is one more thing I would like to end with. World War One had so many terrible tactics. evil weapons, and brutal warfare, but then again, so does every war. So that brings the question, isn't every war uncivilized? World War One may have been exceptionally brutal, but that doesnt make any other war not brutal.
“We all say not war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won’t be the case"-by Silvio Bersuconi. This quote was said by former Italian Prime Minister who spoke about war.
In “The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell”, John Crawford shows how war can drastically change soldiers by having psychological effects on them and when soldiers come back from war they can feel like they are alone. Some psychological effects are post-traumatic stress disorder, also known as PTSD, depression,
This was called “air raid shock”. Due to World War One, there was unfortunately a high number of new patients ready to open a new field of psychoanalysis. The war was not limited to physical health being destroyed but mental health of women, children, and troops fighting in the
PTSD Affecting Soldiers He stood there, frozen, shocked, not knowing what to do when he saw a gun pointed at him. Thankfully, the trigger didn’t work, but he had to witness a scarring event, in which he had shot his enemy in the head. It is not surprising that soldiers returning from a stressful war often suffer from a psychological condition called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. For instance, in the book Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, the principle character Perry unmistakably demonstrates how war troopers can be damaged and experience the ill effects of PTSD.
War is a time of conflict among different nations, states, or political communities (www.dictionary.reference.com). It has been fought for natural resources, religious or cultural reasons, to settle arguments about land and money, and many other issues. There are various struggles throughout the two short stories, The Sniper, written by Liam O'flaherty and Just Lather, that's all, written by Hernando Tellez. The Sniper, is a short story about a Republican sniper that tries to survive in a battle of victory. The short story, Just Lather, that's all, is about
Finally war kill lots of people. One example is “I think we ought to bomb the daylights out of them, as long as we don’t hit any women or children or old people, don’t you?… ‘Or hospitals,’ he went on. ’And naturally no schools. Or churches.’ ‘We must also be careful about works of art,’...
The True Weight of War “The Things They Carried,” by Tim O’Brien, brings to light the psychological impact of what soldiers go through during times of war. We learn that the effects of traumatic events weigh heavier on the minds of men than all of the provisions and equipment they shouldered. Wartime truly tests the human body and and mind, to the point where some men return home completely destroyed. Some soldiers have been driven to the point of mentally altering reality in order to survive day to day. An indefinite number of men became numb to the deaths of their comrades, and yet secretly desired to die and bring a conclusion to their misery.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in The Things They Carried During the turbulent times of the Vietnam War, thousands of young men entered the warzone and came face-to-face with unimaginable scenes of death, destruction, and turmoil. While some perished in the dense Asian jungles, others returned to American soil and were forced to confront their lingering combat trauma. Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried provides distinct instances of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and reveals the psychological trauma felt by soldiers in the Vietnam War. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD for short, is the most common mental illness affecting soldiers both on and off the battlefield.
During the Vietnam War the soldiers, whether or not they wanted to be there, many of them developed mental illnesses. The things they would experience would cause burdens on them for the rest of their lives. “Ted Lavender, who was scared, carried tranquilizers until he was shot in the head outside the village of Than Khe in mid-April.” (The Things They Carried) Lavender carried tranquilizers until he died, because he was scared.
Throughout Chapter five of her book Shadows of War, Carolyn Nordstrom shares her views on war in terms of social, physical and mental goals and punishes of such violence. To begin, one of the first goals of war as defined by Nordstrom is a direct result of a threat of loss of control. She explains that it is common for one military to feel the need to destroy another when their control over a certain (land area owned or controlled by someone) is under threat (56). An interesting point that Nordstrom makes is relating to/about (community of people/all good people in the world)'s do not tell the difference between the existence of different violences. As stated by Nordstrom, most people will naturally tell/show the difference between different wars; however, very few tell/show the difference between the experience of violence throughout such wars (57).
More than half of all male Vietnam veterans and almost half of all female Vietnam veterans have experienced clinically serious stress reaction symptoms.” PTSD has also been detected among veterans of other wars. ("PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress
“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” President John Fitzgerald Kennedy said to the United Nations General Assembly, on September 25th, 1961. This quote is saying that the killing of soldiers in war will soon destroy all. This relates to both stories because both soldiers regretted killing someone.
When you are in the military, you may see combat. You may have been on missions that exposed you to horrible and life-threatening experiences. You may have been shot at, seen a buddy get shot, or seen death. These types of events can lead to PTSD. The 2014 JAMA Psychiatry study found the rate of PTSD to be 15 times higher than