Genocide in Syria?

I believe that what is happening in Syria is genocide. My reason being that they are dehumanizing the country by not warranting access to the country, killing innocent civilians, killing of outside influencers, and the crack down of protestors As a result, the international community has taken away the liberties of Syria outside of the country and condemned Syria. What I think that should happen is that the international community should intervene because of what is happening and they should respond with, not peacekeepers, an army.

Who is to blame for Rwanda

the people who were in the war (Hutu and Tutsi) and the United States. The Hutu are to blame for killing their own kind and commiting genocide against Tutsi, and killing those who didnt want to help fight. The Tutsi are to blame for accepting favortism and staying in government by force until the Belgians left, and not attempting to compromise and killing those who wouldnt fight. The United States is to blame for not even attempting to help stop the genocide and not sending in troops to those who wanted to help (Dallaire).

Defiance: Movie Reflection

"After watching the movie Defiance and then seeing what the US response to the Holocaust was at the time, describe what you think the proper response of one of the individuals that you labeled as "guilty" on your worksheet should have been to what was happening. Next, describe what the proper response of the US to the Holocaust should have been as it was occurring and while we were fighting Nazi Germany during WWII. Finally, describe your views on how the international community should respond to genocide when it happens today (for example, in Syria)."
One of the individuals that I considered guilty was the president at the time. The president didn't initiate any sort of repromand toward the Nazi party, therefore contributing to the ok that gave Hitler the push to continue is terrible acts. The proper response that I think he should have done was gather up all of the allies he could and go and stop Hitler from killing innocent Jews before it was too late. We should have said something to Hitler that said that he shouldn't kill innocent Jews. My views on how the international community should respond to genocide when it happens today is that everyone should just say no to anyone who feels like killing a particular group of people and stop the person right then.

Defiance: Changing the scene

Imagine that YOU are the editor of “Defiance,”
creating a film that reflects your own ethics.
How would you choose to portray the scene where the partisans are beating the scout who is spying on their location?

A. The group kills the scout and gets on with their
lives afterwards
B. The group starts to beat him, and then stops
itself before it is too late
C. The group starts to beat the scout, and then
Tuvia stops them
D. The group kills the scout and then can't believe
what it has done
E. The group kills the scout, and when Tuvia walks
by they are angry at him for not stopping them
F. Another alternative

• Why would you portray that scene in the way that
you've chosen? Why did you choose your answer
over the other answers?
• Describe how your choice connects to your own
personal sense of ethics.


My choice would be C because I think they should have kept him prisoner until he told them. After which, they would try to change him to be friends with them and make him part of their society. Then they would clean him up. The other answers would cause the things that happened in the movie and maybe even worse. My choice describes my thoughts of real life war. Video games to me are a different thing. I dislike war and I hope to never get involved in it.

Defiance: Is it all fair in love and war?

"To espand a little bit on the conversation from yesterday today we saw that a lot of the tactics used both by the Russian partisans and the Jewish partisans were guerrilla tactics. These include disrupting supply lines, stealing from the enemies, ambushes, etc. What legitimizes these actions? Keep in mind that we used many of the same tactics to gain our independence from great britain. Should strict rules of war apply, or is all fair in love and war?"
 The legitimizing of guerrilla tactics during war is supplied by the need for food, more weapons to stay protected, and other supplies needed to survive if you are a hunted group of beings that is dying out. All is fair in love and war when meeting a hunted group's needs. Think of it as Robin Hood and the people of sherwood forest. He had to meet their needs by taking from those who took from them.