Students With A View

All over the world people are in arguments, and all over the world, others are paying for these arguments.  The need for property and selfish gain by two people can destroy a country for thousands of innocent civilians.  However, once a conflict is introduced, and the people of that land become involved, they are no longer innocent.  The innocence of these people is diminished because one side will become their opinion, and that influence and motivation will be their death trap.  What once was a land of minimal or small argument is now one with millions of small ones and one large one.  However, instead of compromising and listening to one another, we fight.

            In the country of Serbia, all was at ease until Albanians wanted purity.  Not to say that the Serbians were not pure, but Albanians wanted, in other words, a world where Serbians did not exist.  Now, I am sure we all obtain this feeling at times, one exertion of undisguised insanity that the world would be a better place without someone.  However, most of us, the ones who have the strength to come back to the sane section of the brain, handle these situations somewhat peacefully, while others, remain in the crazed frenzy until it is too late.  The seven continents and four oceans of this world do not become a better place when someone or group of people are gone.  Haven’t we ever noticed what happens when someone dies?  There is mourning and souls who weep, maybe not the majority who sob, but someone, a human being who loses someone because he was different.  Children from our generation and younger are learning that it is okay to murder someone if they perform or say something you do not agree with.  And we wonder where the youth of today will bring us tomorrow.  Well I know exactly where, at this rate, we are going, and the final destination is not a popular tourist site. 

            The reasons for the beginning of the genocide in Serbia, Bosnia, and Albania are pretty simple: Albania wants to rule over Bosnia and Serbia, but the Bosnia and Serbia do not want to be ruled over, so they are skirmishing to preserve themselves.  In my opinion, only the people engaged in the conflict can stop it, and all of those who choose to help can.  Even though there are many landmines being utilized in this, more can be done on foot than we think.  Training dogs or possibly cats, since cats are quick on their feet, to search out and locate landmines before someone steps on them could be an alternative.  However, the real solution to this ethnic battle of greed would be to sit down with all of the leaders and work out the issue with words and nothing else. 

            Holding children hostage and blowing civilians to pieces is not a productive way to get what you truly are hunting for. Human nature is to fight for revenge and to get what we want.  However, human nature is not always a productive way to manage situations.  Arguments are not between two people; they are between many people that just so happen to be around them at the time.  There is no lesser or more cause to help, just arguments to cease. 

                                                                                    –Golfer

www.ppu.org. Peace Pledge Union Information. 2-26-08. [http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_bosnia.html]