Assignment 9-Garrett Uebelhor

Well first off let me just say if you’re a pacifist like Mennonites, you often don’t really understand why you can take that anti-violence stance. The whole reason you can live in a country and be a pacifist is because that country is most certainly not completely against violence and will protect you if anything happens. So with that said in this day and era yes going to war is sometimes necessary, hopefully one day we will rise above violence but as of now-not going to happen.  We live in a very imperialistic type of world; you seize a territory and hold on to it. If you don’t hold on tight to what’s yours someone surely will take that loosely gripped object. In response to the second question, is it morally right? Well in my mind murder is never right but in the right cases it can be justifiable and admissible.  It is definitely a evil, but a necessary one in certain situations. I think to a certain extent war is a responsibility for a country. A country has an obligation to protect its citizens, so if those citizens are being harassed and hurt by other countries then yes, was might be  a justified solution. War, however, should never be plan A. Diplomacy, compromise, and every other method of preventing violence while protecting the citizens’ rights should first be exhausted, but once these things have been tried and have failed, one must fall back to the last case scenario-war. This is when I believe war is acceptable, only after all other methods have been tried and have failed.