War:The Worst Enemy Of Humanity.

Humans have many enemies. If we consider it, each person fears different things or has their own reason to hate something or someone. We usually only understand our hates and not the ones of the others because generally we had a bad experience regarding that thing we dislike. It is hard and sometimes impossible to stop that hate or fear we have since it has marked us greatly and because of this we are often closed to view other realities in life that may be a bigger threat to us.

War is one them, since war is generally going on in our world we think that it’s something quite normal or just something that is bound to happen but we don’t actually quite realize that war brings severe consequences. We think of war as an obsolete aspect as if the only wars were from the past the ones that left an impact on humanity today like world war 2 and the 100 years war, it is as if we consider ourselves to civilized to be able to believe that those wars may happen again. By being focused so much on our own fears and enemies we don’t realize how we encounter war every day and the consequences it has against us. As Plato said “only the dead have seen the end of war.” Meaning that war really never ends it is always among us it only ends when we end because then after we are not able to see it any more but that does not mean that it is not there. So war is always going to be among us no matter what we do or regarding what in this world there will always be some war of some kind, there is nothing we can do to stop but as humanity and in order to think best for all there may be some things we can do so that it does not affects us so strongly, in orders words to find out a way to decrease wars effect so that we can stop seeing war but that way not being death. As I said at the beginning that war is one a big enemy that humanity has and I think that because war even if does not affects us directly, it destroys us by creating a competitive and violent world that is not good or pleasant for anybody to live in. Most of the times we don’t realize this since we live in our perfect society where we don’t really care what’s happening outside.

In the first chapter of the book Slaughter House-Five I could see how the characters life was marked by war in immensely. As he was talking to his friend they are saying how neither of them can remember anything good about the war that had been in. Most importantly I could relate this topic to Mary the wife of the characters friend and how she simply was mad at the character for going to war. I see it this way, the reason that her husband went off to of left a mark in her of worry and suffering to think what could happen to him. Then that trouble became fear, fear of how maybe her children would be influenced by it. “It was the war that made her so angry. She didn’t want her babies or anybody else’s babies killed in war.” In this case war became her enemy because it gave her a permanent concern of how war may influence not only her children but the entire world.