What Is Dehumanization Objectified?

Dehumanization obviously has negative effects on a soldier’s mind and psyche, a fact that the military almost always ignores. A neuropsychiatric disorder known as “combat fatigue” often plagues soldiers in the line of an “unprecedented amount of indirect fire” but is almost never recognized. Many saw soldiers with the disorder as lesser, and “the Marine Corps official history failed to mention combat fatigue, even though it constituted 10 percent of the casualties and had a very negative effect on the fighting.” The trend of refusing to acknowledge that human soldiers also had human brains and hearts and feelings became accepted more and more as the war dragged on.

Through the soldiers’ experiences, the narrator shows only the dark side of human nature. Discuss.

Far too often, war is glorified and soldiers are praised for their service, when their service is, in reality, a disservice. Soldiers are sent off into foreign countries to kill, almost always, innocent people, and here Fearing is using imagery to

In the article, “Analysis: Should Child Soldiers Be Prosecuted For Their Crimes?” it said the child soldiers were, “Pushed by their commanders to do perpetrating atrocities.” This just goes to show that the children did these horrible things because they were told that it was okay, and that is what they were instructed to do. Also, In the CBS interview with Ishmael Beah, referring to his commanders and fellow child soldiers said, “you develop a strong sense of attachment to these groups and at this time these people are the only type of structure you have in any way.” and also, “you want to please them.” This proves that the children look up to the commanders as a role model, and they think of the other soldiers almost as family. Lastly, in the CBS interview with Ishmael Beah he said, “The sergeants begin to look like older brothers,” and, “The commanders begin to look like your father figure.” This just illustrates that the child soldiers have no body other than the commanders and sergeants to look up to, so they do look up to them, but they are not very good role models. Furthermore, the commanders are not good people for these children to be looking up to, so naturally they learn that doing bad things is okay, and that is all they

Since the beginning of time, humans have sought after power and control. It is human instinct to desire to be the undisputed champion, but when does it become a problem? Warfare has been practiced throughout civilization as a way to justify power. Though the orders come directly from one man, thousands of men and women pay the ultimate sacrifice. In Randall Jerrell’s “The Death of a Ball Turret Gunner”, Jarrell is commenting on the brutality of warfare. Not only does Jarrell address the tragedies of war, he also blames politics, war leaders, and the soldier’s acknowledgement of his duties. (Hill 6) With only five lines of text, his poems allows the reader to understand what a soldier can go through. With the use of Jerrell’s poem, The Vietnam War, and Brian Turner’s “Ameriki Jundee”, the truth of combat will be revealed.

War has always been so merciless, so bloody, and so disastrous. In war there always dead, injuries, and overall is how much the soldier has satisfied. There are war that people can clearly see with bare eyes, that they see soldiers lost a part or more of the whole physical body, but there are war that the soldier fighting with their mental and that is the “invisible war” that nobody can see, but them, soldiers. The “Invisible war” by Kirby Dick 's “brutally shocking documentary argues that rape in the US military” is not an aberration, but a shameful secret epidemic. Victims are expected to suffer in silence and the issue is regarded as an occupational hazard. The US army is known as one of the best army in the world with all the “great” weapons and “strictly” rules that is the place for no mistake and the soldiers are always receive all the best for their satisfy for this country. However, the fact is so many of them were threatening for sex assault, many of them suffer their lives after their join army and in many cases, there are no actions from the government in general. The “ Invisible War” is a fantastic documentary showed the viewer of the other side, the dark invisible war, that the soldiers have to fought for when they are on duty and even after they services are due.

In every moment, we are ready to go to war with another person. We do this when hunger and fear make us think that it is worth it to hold ourselves over the other person, for “hunger and fear can prevail over every human resistance and every freedom” (35). However, we always have the freedom to resist hunger and fear, however tempted we may be, as “freedom consists in knowing that freedom is in peril” (35). It is imperative to resist the urge to treat the other as merely an object, and that we perpetually postpone this urge (35). When we do go to war, we must obscure the face of the Other, since if we recognized the face of the Other, then we would most likely not be able to go through with our war towards

In Full Metal Jacket, the American soldier’s view is very limited towards their assailants due to being introduced to a false concept of ennobling a soldier and as a result, it causes the soldiers to lose empathy. The media glorifies the idea of being a soldier means being a hero, but when soldiers are in the war front they lose meaning to whom they are supposed to be helping and thus kill unnecessarily; Because of this loss of perspective in the movie the soldiers Private Joker and his comrades, sooner or later, are all emotionally impaired and can no longer sympathize with their

War does not only destroy countries, they destroy the minds and bodies of soldiers as well. War can be a terrifying experience that can affect everyone. Soldiers are leaving their families, with the chance of not coming back, friends are turning against each other and innocent human beings are getting killed. Soldiers came back from war in a dehumanized state because of what they have witnessed and gone through. Liam O’ Flaherty, author of, “The Sniper,” chose to have an Irish sniper up against another sniper with the same skills, they fought throughout the night in a rather dangerous setting, causing them to be at risk of death or at the risk of losing their minds. In the short story, “The Sniper,” the author reveals the devastating consequences of war through the physical and psychological effects that the soldier suffers.

Think about the soldiers that serve your country. They all go through tough challenges. Whether it’s an easy to go through challenge, or a challenge that is almost impossible to go through. Now, think of those grown up soldiers as children. By children, meaning younger than 18. In the past, there were groups of bad soldiers that recruited young children that are eighteen and younger. These children, who just wanted to live at least a semi normal life, were now killing to keep their own lives. They have to kill, even if they don’t want to. Whether it’s an innocent person, a bad person, or it might be their family that they have to kill. The group named The Khmer Rouge killed anyone who was in their way. Although some may argue otherwise, that

When dragged into war, many children and their families are in poverty, because of the effects of the war and, in some countries’ cases, simply because of the life they have always lived. Or, because of the poverty they are in, they choose to join the military in order to be fed, given a place to sleep, and provided with easier access to water. In both cases, once the war is over, they remain in the same poor state they were in when they started, or likely even worse. Also, during the fighting, once the kids were drugged, they continued to rely on their commanders for drugs. And, because of the addiction they gained, they are now facing even more health dangers than just having the drugs alone. Child Soldiers--Victims or Perpetrators? states, ¨...rehabilitation should be the aim and not punishment. The Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and Disarmament, Demobilization and Reconciliation program, often abbreviated TTR and DDR, are far better ways of helping children recover and reintegrate back into society and out of war.¨ The article goes on to describe the problems with prosecution. It reveals that the prosecution process can be drawn from a lack of evidence and is sometimes rather selective. Thus, it would be far more effective and a better solution to give child soldiers war relief rather than be

The men and women that sacrifice their lives to protect their country are not free to murder and persecute at will. The soldiers that torture prisoners of war beyond the legal limits set by international law or kill civilians are war criminals. One of the problems that concern political leaders around the world is the development of a process to capture and try a war criminal that is legally agreeable and affordable (Marvasti). Some countries refuse to participate with the International Criminal Court and tend to hide war criminals (Kramer). Furthermore, there are countries that are sympathetic to war criminals and grant them asylum (Haskew). These are just a few of the reasons that many war criminals remain at large today. In order for

Despite the various causes of emotional death, its impact is threatening to victims worldwide. Civil rights novels, mental health articles, domestic abuse memoirs, drug abuse photos, and suicide letters are variety of sources that further the understanding of mental conditions alongside emotional death. Furthermore, these genres allow an investigation of the minds of the internally dead, as well as the events surrounding their mental state. Since such an analysis steers away from traditional school-related notes and societal stereotypes, it proves that there are no restrictions on who emotional death can affect. It creates the concept of war in new dimensions and an entirely different perspective. Observing these conflicts allows society, especially those who have been shielded from war’s existence, a glimpse into the mind of a sufferer, while minimizing stereotypes of those who are killed emotionally in response to war situations.

Tragically, history is filled with anecdotes suggesting that human beings have a tendency to dehumanize others and that this dehumanized perception is linked with reduced empathy for the pain of victims, constant denial of their human rights, and extreme brutality against them. This is moreover consistent with political, legal, and ethical theory that demonstrates an individual's humanity, personhood, or human dignity is essential to the acknowledgement and enforcement of that individual's rights. It’s typically thought that all people have some innate human rights that should not be violated. Innocent people should not be killed, sexually abused, or tortured. Rather, international law suggests that they should be treated with dignity and

Dehumanization is the process of taking away all human qualities of the victim and reducing the victim to sub-human levels in the eye of the perpetrator and the victim. Alan Paton, the author of Cry, the Beloved Country, wrote an ardent novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law. Cry, the beloved Country is the heartfelt story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son, Absalom, set in a land severed by the racial injustice of the apartheid. Throughout this novel, Stephen Kumalo encounters many situations that violate the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”, which are the basic fundamental rights and freedoms that everyone is entitled to regardless of race, sex, nationality, language, religion, etc. Given these points, the