War is Bad

In my opinion, war is bad. I'm not saying that it's bad because I dislike violence or because I believe that there should be peace on earth, but because overall, war has proved to be for the most part, a bad thing for us. Through out history, our governments have resorted to wars as away to get what they want, but to what cost? Valuable money from taxpayers. Although we say money can’t buy us happiness, it sure can buy us health, or better said, help us be healthy. With money being used for war, as the war progressed and the government felt a need to prolong the war in order to win, they usually sought out to raise the cost. This in turn rose the percentage of population living under the poverty line, which led to malnutrition issues in families. But all the negatives that are usually cause by the government's need for war, including debt and lowering the economic status of the country, in the future, whether close or far, lead to improvement in living. Of course, that is only once the war has ended. When looking at individual countries and their progress after a war, most of the time, that progress is in such an amount, that if it were to be graphed, it would be highly noticeable. This is the good thing about wars, and post war times, people are brought together in search of a better way of living because war is a terrible time.

War is a terrible time. Although not in all wars, but in many through out history, men (mostly) were drafted and forced into fighting. Since in most families, it’s the men that were in charge of maintaining the family economically well, or as best as possible, the drafting that occurs in wars, such as in the Great War led to women having the chance to step up. This "stepping up" was a great step in women empowerment through knowledge. Its crazy how something as terrible as the Great War can lead to something as productive as the empowerment of women, through means of jobs. Another thing that war can do is can create job opportunities which in the long run helps pay off war debt and like in the United States, can boost the economy. But as we learned in class, while wars may have positives to it, it also has really bad negatives. For the Great War, millions of people from various places got together in a small area and fought one another for long amounts of time. We carry many viruses within us but we don't have a reaction to them since we've lived with them for so long, developing an immunity. This however, does not mean that others whom we meet wont get those viruses, that is exactly what happened in WWI. So all the interaction with people who carried various viruses and diseases got many people sick who later, if they lived through it, would return home and give it to others. So many people die not only because of war itself but also because of the conditions in which soldiers live in while in war.