About War: Comparing The Recent and The Past
Talking about war, it just another things that become not so popular among people nowadays. As we know that most of people around the world in this time already under the peace condition. But recently, talking about war can be so much frightening things to be say we are the person that feel or participate in that moment. We can’t turning our face with our brothers or sisters in another side of the world that still craving the ground in order to living for tomorrow. So many tears and blood already shed in order to generate a better future in the warzone, but still, the intense pressure about war not so dramatical than the past. Even almost everyday we watching some news related to wars, like in Middle East, but the sporadic moment not spreading as fast as in long time ago. We can also observe that almost every moment in recent time can be said nearly causing war to break, but whatever the case or solution, it can be repelled. For example the intense quarreling between North and South Korea, or Indonesia and China related to self claiming about South China Sea.
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Back then, started from the earliest existence of human, war was something that people or society thought have positive impact for them, even in some place, it so sacred. Even a small or simple cause could break into open fight and continued into war. Because of the primeval mind that war could give many benefit like resource, slave, land, and even fame; they can reside the impact of war with that aspect. Let us not forget about Crusade and Revolution Wars of US for example, the way of people to acquired something through war without thinking the long term effect, especially if the fuel was religion or human right for instance. The turning point of this moment as I can said in 1945, when United States of America ordered to laying atomic bomb on the Japanese Mainland, in the doorstep of their supreme ruler. That bomb caused so much damage that fatally injured and killed entire city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The destruction was unimaginable, and the long term effect has the same pain than the current impact. From that moment and continuing until now, people going to think twice to breaking a war sporadically and choosing to maintain peace among the other. Even old issues like religion and human right also taking part, yet war is so limited in some place around the world without demanding participation of all country. I guess number can giving the comparison, like in the past, people that killed related to war or other aspect related to war (famine, plague) have enormous number around 85 million for example in World War II. In 21st centuries, the highest number of death toll caused by war can be giving to Syria, with estimated casualties around 400.000 lives. For global calculation of death caused by war, not reaching more than a million. Recent studies revealing that the major cause of death was not war, but health issues related to food (obesity), traffic accident, and overwork. Nowadays, people more like to thinking that the result of war can’t retrieve what will lost cause of it.
