On Thursday we began class by listening and responding to Jamal’s protocol. It was briefly mentioned that the Frans de Waal’s ideas could be used to argue with Froid. De Waal pointed out that even animals have societies, and humans are not by nature violent. We then began to discuss the poem by Millay since we did not get much time to talk about it on Tuesday. The poem lists activities that lead to war from parades to breeding. She then blatantly states that people will die out. A major question discussed after reading the poem was how a pacifist can exist in a world full of violence. We answered by saying you can’t fight people who want to go to war because you would not be a pacifist then. A pacifist should let people who want to go to war, go to war and not attempt to stop them. Later on …show more content…
Next we talked about the background of the Einstein and Infeld reading to give us more understanding of why the authors wrote it. The Evolution of Physics was written around WWII, and this war was more deadly and horrific then WWI. It was so deadly since governments targeted civilians in this war. Bombing was frequently used on cities to cripple the resources and hopes of enemy countries. Not only were enemy civilians attacked, but governments attacked their own citizens as well based on the theory of eugenics. Eugenics was meant to improve the human race by scourging the earth of disease and imperfections. One infamous example of this was the Holocaust were the Nazis killed many Jewish people due to the fact they thought Jews were unfit for society along with people with real disabilities. Germans were creating powerful weapons and Einstein wrote a