The Seminar

I thought the blog was very interesting because we brought up some controversial questions.

I liked that we were able to identify leader's and soldier's involvement, contribution, and opinion on the war. The leaders seemed to build up opposing forces and attack once a conflict rises to the surface. However, the soldiers were less violent than the leaders since they just wanted to serve the country. They've been treated like pawn pieces in a chess game, except now the pawn pieces aren't happy with who they're forced to take down. The soldiers wanted a truce whenever possible, and that's why the Christmas Truce inevitably happened.

Another interesting subject we focused on was deciding if countries (like America) should run over and "help" other countries with their problems. We came up with two different answers. One was that we should help anyone in the world because it is the right and moral thing to do. However, we also realized that sometimes people don't want help from anyone, even though that help is ideal. The other opinion was that, since people might not want help, we should make sure we as a country are completely happy. If we're not, we get mixed ideas of what decisions benefit someone and which one's don't. So until we perfect our lives, there's no point in trying to help someone that will be pissed if you help them.