Thursday, March 4, 2010

Collateral Damage

When I define the term collateral damage, it means that when you or someone else gets involved in a bad situation and someone other than themselves gets hurt or even worse dies because of it. From an outside point of view there are no circumstances that make this kind of damage moral because then the damage will never stop. If someones loved one got killed because of an action someone else did then that person is going to want to retaliate and kill someone close to the person who killed their loved one and then this cycle will just keep continuing and innocent loved ones will just keep getting hurt or killed. To those people in the situtation this probally is morally justifyied. From an outside point of view that has no personal connections to the damage this would be the safer and smarter way of looking at it and saying that this type of damage is wrong, and is unjustifiable.That would be like a judges point of view on the situtiation if these people got caught for hurting or killing people. It is a very nasty circle that would just keep happening and the kind of damage ruins peoples lives. The innocent are killed, and I think that is a horrible thing. This type of damage is the worse, poor innocent people dying for someone elses action. Lets say this type of damage happened to me, then I would say it is justifiable that I try and do some damage back to someone close to the person who hurt me. I would want that person to feel what they did to me and I honestly would say it is still not really moral to me but it would let have some closure and just have my revenge. I think after all the hurt and pain went away from me losing a loved one, is when I could think clearly and really say that that type of damage is immoral. It is hard to say when this damage is justifiable or not because of it never happened to you then its wrong but, if your the person in that situation then it could be the right thing to do by making that type of damage back. I think it is wrong for innocent people to get hurt or killed becasue of someones elses actions, even though if I was in the sistuiation I would want to hurt them back just as bad as they hurt me I would regret hurting someone who never did anything at all to me. I wouldn't be able to live with myself, in the the moment if I was enraged with anger getting that revenge would sound very nice. Everyone knows the saying that time heals almost everything I know if I did that kind of damage I wouldn't heal from it.

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