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Proportional Responses

If someone does something to you, then you’ll most likely want to do it back right? Sometimes this can cause bad situations to worsen. I think a proportional response is bad, it makes things worse, causes retaliation, and it can potentially hurt our country.
Sometimes we just can’t fight back. We need to learn that most of the time, there might not even be a point in fighting back. The person will just fight back and defend themselves, which is most likely out intention as well. Howard Zinn writes, “We have enough evidence now to tell us that this does not stop terrorism, may indeed provoke more terrorism, and at the same leads to the deaths of hundreds, even thousands, of innocent people.” Further explaining this, …show more content…

In Osama bin Laden’s letter he writes, “Depriving these occupiers of the huge returns they receive from their trade with us is a very important way of supporting the jihad against them, and we expect you to boycott all American goods.” This just goes to show, if we do something to someone, they try to hit back harder. Then we end up losing more than we think. Proportional responses can cause bad situations to worsen. There wouldn’t be a point in firing back if the outcome makes the situation worse. Philip Bump writes “June 2016. Shooting at the pulse nightclub in Orlando. Would the ban have prevented this? No. The shooter was born in Queens.” This proves that some things we come back with don’t even work. The travel ban was created to make America “a safer place” right? So why is there more terrorist attacks than there was before. The travel ban only made people want to retaliate more. This was our way of creating a proportional response, and it only made things worse, it blocked people from living a better life, and created more chaos. All because someone did something to us, we did something back.
Overall, the point trying to be proven is that Proportional responses aren’t beneficial in the long run. Proportional responses make things worse, causes retaliation, and it can potentially hurt our

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