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Ethical Issues In The Vietnam War

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Killing is a terrible things to do. It is completely unethical. Avoiding it is ethical, unless it is out of mercy. It shouldn't matter if your government is forcing you to. If you can avoid it, avoid it. The Vietnam war was just that, killing, murder, burning defenseless villages. The war resolved nothing. A death might seem insignificant, but what about to the people who knew them. It feels like the world might end. A death doesn't just affect that one person it affects many more. Tens of people. If we multiply ten by the 50,000 people that died in this war alone we get five hundred thousand or more people who are affected by a death. This is just the people in the United States of America. What about the people in other places or who had their house and property destroyed at battle grounds? …show more content…

People die every day, you might say, but what would they think about it. Wars are only worth it if people are being treated terribly and the war stops the terrible treatment. This war caused more harm, and there was no good to it(other then, maybe, teaching people it was a waste). Helpless people who never did anything wrong were injured, killed, and had property destroyed. They were ripped from their homes, separated from their family. Thom Nickels became a conscientious objector and his family hated him for it at the beginning. On top of that the people who did not dodge the draft were treated terribly when the came home. Not like the people who fought in the Civil War who were treated like

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