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Violence, Wars ...Your Opinion
Topic Started: Nov 27 2009, 06:22 AM (145 Views)
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Today was an interesting experience for me. Our school held a Social Justice day for my year, and to say the least, it was very confronting.
In particular a few things struck me hard that I'd like to share with you.

These are a few points that I learned today and other points that came to me as a result of today, I'd simply like to hear your opinions on them and what you think.

In order to transcend (overcome, get rid of, give up) violence, you must first understand it.

1034 billion dollars has been spent in the bombing of Afghanistan and Iraq, that is the equivalent of giving 1million dollars to every family in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Why do we bomb them and kill thousands of innocents and make them hate us, sparking more terrorism, when for the same amount we could improve their quality of life drastically?

It is estimated that in order to provide a basic education to the whole world it would cost 13 billion. To provide basic health services around the world it would cost 21 billion.
We spend as much as 10 times that amount on military based projects.

80% of the world lives in absolute poverty and starving to death, the other 20% are dying from eating to much.

The final point is, Peace can never be achieved, human nature won't allow it, but we should never stop fighting for it.


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"In order to transcend violence you must first understand it"
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More shareing!
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Because blowing **** up is more fun than saving a life.
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Look, I hate war and starvation as much as the next guy, but I think those statistics that you posted are a bit specious to say the least. Particularly the education and health care ones.

Anyway, yes, it sickens me how the governments of the world misuse their power and focus on fighting amongst each other and vying for their nation to become more powerful. Instead, they should be banding together and using their resources to help make the world a better place for everyone.
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Hmm I was a little skeptical about the health and education ones as well, but that's what we were told so :S The point is governments spend more on military projects than we need to provide basic services to the world.
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