Generation Y Continues
By Remy Benoit
We have high school Juniors with us today. The first two classes were Sophomores. The young people share many sentiments concerning the possibiities for peace. There are interesting perspectives in store for you here. The young have so much to tell us, if we choose to listen. Remember, it was one of them who told the Emperor about his clothes.
World peace has been out of reach for the human race since the beginning of our existence. What is it that can make someone think it won’t be? It is not human nature as much as many people hope it can be, and never will be. Millions of people across our planet have tried hard and want to work for World Peace but maybe just as many people don’t. Different nations like to be independent and work alone while others wish to expand and conquer and be better than others. This is something that cannot be extracted from the human race. Chris R.
World peace will never be achieved because of obstacles that can never be changed. First of all, no two people are exactly the
same which means every person is going to have their own opinion on what’s right and wrong. Different people bring about different cultures and religions. Until people stop being ignorant to things that they necessarily don’t get involved in, and take the time to study and explore other cultures. When people don’t judge each other and accept people for who they are, not for their differences. Andrea B.
I think that human nature is the obstacle to world peace.
You can blame it mostly on the parents.
Many kids are influenced easily by such things as television, CD’s, and their own friends.
It’s the parents’ responsibility to raise their child/children and supervise tghem. Why let society do it? Pamela E.
Obstacles to world peace is to be united, everyone will solve every economic problem or crisis. People being united and not having any problem with each other’s countries will set an example in every aspect of the world and will be the leader for world peace. Helping each other working as one family. If there is a situation which is having misunderstanding and needs to have a compromise, it needs to treat everyone like brothers and sisters. For having a world of peace can give the peoples’ mind peace and harmony too. No one can help each other but only us together. One mind cannot think of all things that can happen but having a lot of courage and knowledge will give us a world peace and I as a person will encourage all that we should be united and make a big step towards victory. Stop the war for the only thing that you can get there is killing. Having war for world peace is good but having war makes other countries in it, and they get persuaded to be in the war too. Milagros M.
World peace is something we have been struggling with for a very long time and I bet it won’t ever be solved. Everyone has
different views on how it should be taken care of. To me, I don’t think it really can be solved. People will always have different opinions on parts of the world and if it does happen one day there will always be someone who will come and ruin it. Jennifer F.
People always have and will have different opinions, ideas, etc., each head is its own world. One of the most hard obstacles the
world has is communication; the exchanging of ideas, points of view, opinions. Whether we are different in so many ways, we are sill human with feelings. We have a body that looks like any other; we are the same. We all are one big family with God as our Father and the planet as our home. Advana L.
The obstacles that are stopping us from world peace are actions of our society. How people act and react to thing stops us
from having world peace. People these days don’t try to resolve situations. They try to find a reason to fight and turn to violence. They don’t realize that violence just gets us into more trouble. Anna S.
There are many obstacles, many things that are holding back world peace. If the simpler ones become solved, the more easily
it’ll be for us to achieve it. Of course, for that to happen, we need to conduct ourselves better as individuals, so that we can lead by example. There’s a lot of hatred that holds the world back from the plan of world peace.
Poverty is another issue of why there’s a lot of violence going on around the world. When a person goes to bed every night hungry, that person won’t be able to conduct properly, so that person could end up killing others around that don’t help. If poor people can get more help, they’ll become more civilized people. Teddy M.
What are the obstacles to World Peace? This has been a question that has puzzled every person to ever live. The obstacle to
world peace begins with greed. Greed consumes a lot of people. People feel as if they need to always have more than the other person. For example, when a person buys a car and their neighbor sees them buy that new car, they feel as if they have to go out and buy a new car. Money rules all. Without money you are a nobody and this is why people feel they have to work so hard even if it means hurting another person.
Another obstacle to achieving world peace is the fact that every single person in the world is different. Therefore, every person has different beliefs on different things. For example, the issue on gun control. Every person has a different view on it. I do not believe there will ever be world peace because there is so much hate in the world and people will not be able to just get along. Doug B.
When I heard the question, “What are some obstacles to world peace?” I thought to myself, the biggest obstacle is the world
itself. What I mean by this is the world is so big and so different. Nothing is ever the same where ever you go. I think of it like trying to put a puzzle together. Even knowing each piece is supposed to fit somewhere you’ll never find it ‘cause you’re blind with out light.
There are so many beliefs, ideas, religions, languages, and so much more. I think if the world was able to have total piece, we’d just ruin it. Peace to most is only a myth, but to others is a goal and achievement far from reach. Adam W.
I believe that you can come to a conclusion that there is ultimately one obstacle to world peace and that obstacle is people. I
believe as long as people share and express their personal views and feelings in a public display the world will never be peaceful.
And by public display I mean simple things that you do all the time that show who you really are. Like how you dress; or how you speak and the manner in which you act.
People who will not accept you for who you are being discriminatory. Discrimination is the reason we all can’t get along and live peacefully. As long as we view different people as being “different” world peace will never happen. Chris H.
World peace, the definitive oxymoron. There are prey and there are predators. People will never give up their defenses for fear
they will turn to prey. Greed, lust, vanity, sloth, wrath, envy, and gluttony. Human nature? Some things don’t change. Steve F.
The main obstacle to world peace is people. No matter what you do to please a person they’ll always want more.
Wars are started over someone wanting what someone else has, and in the end they don’t usually get it anyway. I think it’s just
human nature to want what you don’t have. It’s always been that way so why would it ever change?
People would have to learn to share, and if necessary, ask nicely for what the want instead of this “all for me and the heck with the rest of you,” attitude that everyone in the world has, especially Americans. If people can’t care about the person that stand next to them, how are they ever going to care about someone half a world away? John K.
The obstacles to world peace are complicated but at the same time simple. The views of one country and culture are very
different from that of another country. Based on this belief, I can only conclude that until all countries are able to fully understand each other and agree on major issues, such as freedoms for its citizens, no world peace ma be reached. The only way I see this happening is by one world power replacing any leaders it disagrees with. Ed N.
I do not believe that world peace can ever happen. The world is filled with so many kinds of people. Every person has his own
beliefs. If you try to compromise, then someone else will have a problem with the compromise. The only way we could have world peace would be if everyone thought the same and that will never happen. If it did, the world would be too boring to live on. The bottom line is that you can’t make one person happy without getting someone else upset. Tom F.
Basically I feel people are too closed minded. They are so dead set against an issue that they really don’t want to hear what the others are saying. A very wise person once told me this: Listen to what people have to say. Don’t think of a come back. Listen to their opinion, then state yours. I believe in this. If I am in an argument, I listen before I respond. Like Arafat and Sharon now their stop their fighting in Israel and Palestine. They worked to a peaceful solution. They had suicide bombings, and were even fighting against each other, but they talked it out and worked to a better non-violent solution. I think if the world listens with an open mind we will see world peace among us. Eric N.
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