Chapter 21

Chapter 21 is about the world wars and it is incredible to think of how many people died.  The book says there were an estimated 60 million deaths.  Six times the deaths in World War 1.  Not only were these soldiers, but more than half of them were civilians.  Those numbers alone make me lean towards the pro-peace side.  I feel like there is nothing anybody could do in this world that would make that many innocent civilians deserve death.  Part of me could understand a war, but only kill soldiers.  No innocent person deserves to die no matter what.  This leads me to discuss the bombing of Hiroshima.  It almost seemed unnecessary.  If you're going to kill innocent people, why not just shoot them?  Using an atomic bomb is miserable and would make death terrible.  Imagine being one of the people getting bombed and getting burned to death.  People think the holocaust makes Hitler so evil, but what about that bombing.  I'm not saying Hitler isn't evil, but this atomic bombing is extremely close to evil.  Another reason why I think war is not good, because of the long term effect it has on countries.  It caused horrific economic collapse in Europe and even the Holocaust messed things up, even though it was self inflicted.  All in all, reading this chapter makes me think war is not a good thing and peace should be promoted!