the boy who won the game did nothing wrong to anybody – except the boy who lost. It is possible that the boy who lost took the celebration as a taunt‚ got angry‚ and attacked the winner. These examples show that the argument of whether revenge is justified varies greatly‚ not so much depending on a situation itself‚ but on the perspective a person has on the situation. Going back to the first example‚ a judge who might be deciding the appropriate punishment for the impaired driver would probably immediately
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Can war be justified? Since September 11th‚ American news has been filled with stories and photographs of violent war. We were attacked mercilessly on our on soil‚ so most would say that the war on Afghanistan and Iraq are justified. But looking further into the matter‚ what are we really accomplishing with war? Are we proving that they shouldn’t bother us anymore? Or are we just getting revenge? Neither are justifications for war. We should in the first place keep the best relations possible
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genocide of millions of people. The responsible party‚ The Nazi Regime‚ was a dictatorship out of Germany headed by their notorious leader‚ Adolf Hitler. The group targeted Jewish people and persecuted groups‚ such as gypsies and homosexuals. Hitler justified these actions because he felt the Jewish people were a lower class compared to the German people. Under the Nazi rule there was continued Jewish persecution. However‚ Hitler at some point‚ decided to finally exterminate the Jews completely. To put
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For those who spend their lives working to prevent and end wars‚ whether and how war itself can be justified must be an urgent question. Of course‚ war’s justification is an ancient tradition. Bizarrely‚ Just War theory was formulated within the Christian church‚ whose founder chose a donkey instead of a war horse and taught his followers to overcome evil with good. Not only is the theory still mainstream among churches but‚ as Dan Smith‚ head of an important NGO working for conflict transformation
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and dissent. In his 1918 essay Politics as a Vocation‚ Max Weber described the monopoly of state violence as an essential characteristic of modern governments. (1918 p.1) State violence is monopolised towards the pursuit of societal compliance‚ which according to political history‚ is a necessary condition for a functioning democracy. (1918 p.2) As Tolstoy points out‚ history has demonstrated the advent of modern states to be forming under extreme violence. (1918 p.2) According to Noam Chomsky
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around ever since the early 1600s in America. The very first slaves were shipped to the North American colony to help with plantation. Slavery was entrenched in the southern colonies because of the demand of workers for cultivating crops and it was justified by plantation owners through religion‚ however many African Americans gained their freedom by rebelling. Although slavery had already existed in America‚ it became deeply rooted in the southern economy‚ politics‚ and culture mainly due to the creation
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Were the colonists justified in waging war and breaking away from Britain? After all of the hardship and violence the British imposed on the colonists‚ the Americans were justified in waging war and breaking away from Britain. The Colonists were justified in breaking away because the parliament passed laws that were unjustified‚ The British king was of tyranny‚ The Stamp Act of 1765‚ The Townshend Act and The Boston Massacre. All of this lead to the colonies joining together and rebelling against
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The play Hamlet is a play about revenge. In the play Hamlet‚ it leads me to believe that revenge is not justified in any way. Because Claudius dies‚ Hamlet dies‚ Ophelia‚ Horatio all die at the end of the play. The first reason why the Hamlet play is proof that revenge is not justified. Hamlet is the main character of the play trying to figure out how to get revenge on Claudius. Claudius killed hamlets father by pouring poison in his father’s ear. In order to become the new king of Denmark. And
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In the short story “the most dangerous game” Rainsford was justified in killing general Zaroff. Rainsford was a writer and a hunter and he was on a boat they were near by a island called “ship wreak island” they crashed but only few died but Rainsford was the only one to live after the terrible ship wreak Rainsford swam to the island than he found a house but it was more a big one than he went there wondering is anyone was there and that where he met general zaroff‚zaroff was also a hunter
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from civil disobedience is crossed then chaos breaks out ‚ then it is no longer civil disobedience.Then it becomes a whole other argument which does not meet the criteria. As long as the fight has a meaning and/ or promotes a safer life‚ it is acceptable.The reason being because human rights are meant to protect the people‚however‚ there are situations in which people take advantage of others disabilities.Individuals should have the right to act‚ do and say as they wish to do.They also have the right
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