World War I: War Is A Waste Of Good Lives

War is a waste of good lives, which are more precious than any gift on the planet. Life is so fragile and cannot be altered, stopped, or reversed with any amount of money, power, or land. Therefore, we should not risk young men’s lives by throwing them into a war zones telling them to shoot at people not wearing the same color as you. War causes many innocent people die just because they were “in the way” and causes many others to become murders in order to serve their country. War overall is an extremely barbaric act and is frankly a waste of good lives. War is malicious doing that causes many unarmed civilians to to die. In World War I, almost 9,000,000 civilians were killed and for what? Their deaths served no purpose in aiding the war effort on either side. These civilians died from diseases, because almost all of their nation’s medicine and medical personnel were helping in the war effort, from massacres, caused by militaries destroying entire cities filled with people, and from starvation, due to practically all the nation’s food being channeled to
In World War I, war casualties reached about 30,000,000 and many of those killed were not directly involved in the war. However, it is not just World War I where many who are killed are bystanders. In most wars, many of the killed populous are civilians who were in the wrong place at the wrong time. DuFu said “There should be a limit to the killing of men. Every country should have its bounds. It is enough to keep the aggressors away; no sense in killing and wounding so many.” He is saying that people should stick to the original ideals of war and only eliminate those who oppose us rather than destroying anyone who is relatively in our path. This should create the same results of the war and cut the death rate in half, allowing those not directly involved in war to live in peace and it makes the most of everyone’s