"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
This blog is mine. It will detail my thoughts on the wars that our world has fought, is fighting, and will continue to fight. The picture is of a Buddhist monk who has set himself on fire in protest to war. He is still alive in the picture.
The title refers to a dystopian novel, Oryx and Crake. The children play a game in which they trade human tragedies for human triumphs which begs the question, do achievements such as the creation of the Human Genome Project trump the calamity of the Holocaust?
This blog is mine. It will detail my thoughts on the wars that our world has fought, is fighting, and will continue to fight. The picture is of a Buddhist monk who has set himself on fire in protest to war. He is still alive in the picture.
The title refers to a dystopian novel, Oryx and Crake. The children play a game in which they trade human tragedies for human triumphs which begs the question, do achievements such as the creation of the Human Genome Project trump the calamity of the Holocaust?
3 comments:
Why would certain tragedies such as the holocaust eliminate the good humans have done? Just because there is bad in the world doesn't mean we forget about the good. I believe we need both in the world in order for everything to balance out. If we didn't have tragedies, there wouldn't be the good things either, we need both for their to be any.
However, the problem with my thinking means there will always be war and never a way to stop anything wrong in the world. War will be the end of humanity, but there has to be a balance to where the good gets domething from it.
Yeah I kind of agree with the above comment. If there was no bad in the world, we would not appreciate the good or even realize what good was right? I don't think that tragedies such as the holocaust eliminates the good humans have done. They simply make us appreciate the goodness of the world more. Not to say that we need holocausts periodically to remind us of good or anything though.
my thinking was more of the notion that the good that we do trumps the bad. not so much that the bad erases the good. it was interesting to see how two of you interpreted the question the same way.
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