War and peace
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- War and peace
- WMD
- Biological
- Banned under Geneva convention
- Uses deadly viruses to disable or kill armies
- Enters food and water supplies which can affect the innocent
- Nuclear
- Affects generations of innocent people
- Evidence of 4 generations after Hiroshima being affected by radiation
- Governments shouldn't posses weapons that can kill so many in one blow
- Chemical
- Was banned in 1925 but still used by America in Vietnam
- Can have horrible affects on the body such as choking, burning and paralysis
- Mustard gas is absorbed into the body and has long term affects
- Napalm sticks to your skin and burns deeper and deeper over a period of weeks
- WMD: Weapons that can kill large numbers of people or cause great damage
- Arguments for WMD
- Its a deterrent E.G Trident
- Getting rid of them will make countries vunerable
- Getting rid of them wont stop countries making them in secrecy
- Protects countries from attacks
- Arguments against WMD
- Why spend billions on killing each other when you can spend it on saving the environment
- Inhumane killing is morally wrong
- CND: Christian campaign for nuclear disarmament
- Has setup protests and campaigns
- Biological
- Why wars happen
- To gain money, land and power
- To remove a leader or dictator
- To defend beliefs or culture
- To defend your country or ally
- Teachings
- Quakers
- Requests the removal of all WMD
- Pacifists
- Islam
- All countries with WMD must disarm them
- War is only Justifiable if you are being oppressed or someone has started a war with you
- You can only go to war if there is a reasonable chance of victory and is the last resort
- Quakers
- Just war and holy war
- A just war needs one of seven conditions
- Good out weighs evil
- Reasonable chance of succes
- Last resort
- Proportional responce
- Establish good
- Declaration by authority
- Good outweighs the occurring bad
- 3 condition needed for a holy war
- Led by a holy war E.G Delai Lama in the invasion of Tibet where they protected their country
- It must be fought in the name of God
- Has a religious goal
- A just war needs one of seven conditions
- Terrorism
- In no religion it is justified
- Doesnt fit in with religious teachings
- E.G 9/11 wasn't justified because it killed 3000 innocent civilians which were women childeren and men.
- Islam and war
- Islam means peace in Arabic
- "Hate your enemy mildly as he may be your friend one day"
- "If an enemy inclines towards peace you should have trust in Allah as he sees everything"
- In Islam there is greater struggle which is everyday struggle which means is the ability to resist the temptation of every day things such as drinking
- There is also lesser jihad which is the struggle in the military or in times of war
- The rules of engagement
- Once the enemy has laid down their weapons then all war prisoners must be released
- You must only engage if there is a reasonable chance of success
- Islam means peace in Arabic
- Case study Tibet
- The Tibets had to break their vows not to fight which breaks the first moral precept
- The Chinese had a mass genocide of the Tibetans
- The Delai Lama fled to India where they controlled the Tibetans fighting from a safe location
- Red Cross
- Over 20,000,000 world wide volunteers
- Total number of donations received £400,000
- Over 4,000,000 million people currently people being treated
- WMD
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