I was reading Paulos' book and it simply amazing. Thanks brother! There are so many insightful things said in that book that just make so much sense. However, one of the lessons i got from the book is the following: there isn't a time that disregards life more than during a time of war. it's insane. Paulos notes during the Vietnam war:
"While 58,000 Americans perished, an estimated 2-2.5 million Vietnamese (out of a population of about 65 million) died."
And we lost that war.
How is it possible that ANY situation arises that we as people are ok with this? I was not around during the time of this war really, but i wonder how many of the protesters of the war were saying the war should stop because MILLIONS of people were dying instead of the thousands of Americans dying. I guess that would not have mattered.
How can the press today simply ignore how many people are dying on the other side? How do we as people allow ourselves to believe each of us in our country is worth more than a person in other countries? When we agree to start a war, then we agree that each of us is worth more than them. that is exactly what happens when war starts; Our hope is to kill more people than the number of people on our side. It is implicit in any war strategy basically. If we are ok with that, then we are saying that we are more important. Roughly 4000 vietnamese died for every american soldier in that war and if we only mourn the loss of our people, we devalue the lives of the other side.
And we lost that war.
How is it possible that ANY situation arises that we as people are ok with this? I was not around during the time of this war really, but i wonder how many of the protesters of the war were saying the war should stop because MILLIONS of people were dying instead of the thousands of Americans dying. I guess that would not have mattered.
How can the press today simply ignore how many people are dying on the other side? How do we as people allow ourselves to believe each of us in our country is worth more than a person in other countries? When we agree to start a war, then we agree that each of us is worth more than them. that is exactly what happens when war starts; Our hope is to kill more people than the number of people on our side. It is implicit in any war strategy basically. If we are ok with that, then we are saying that we are more important. Roughly 4000 vietnamese died for every american soldier in that war and if we only mourn the loss of our people, we devalue the lives of the other side.
No comments:
Post a Comment