From Ancient Greece To Iraq The Power Of Words In Wartime Analysis
We all get named something in our early childhood, but people adapt to the name they get called. Sometimes we start using it ourselves. Also, even as kids we were taught to “think before you speak.’ Kids don’t always realize the power of language, and yet I’m not sure adults do either. An example would be soldiers who have names for people, “An American soldier refers to an Iraqi prisoner as ‘it’ “(Lakoff 7). We have names for certain things-- sometimes just to shorten a word, it might not be the nicest name, but it works most of the time. Likewise, soldiers have names for everyone that they have war with. The language of war is something everyone does. In his essay “From Ancient Greece to Iraq the power of Words in Wartime,” Robin Tolmach Lakoff says, “Human beings are social animals, genetically hardwired to feel compassion towards others. Under normal conditions, most people find it very difficult to kill.” ( Lakoff 7). The subject of war and there are mass killings that take
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Just like solider around the world call their enemies names. Did you know “Soldiers, and those who remain at home, learn to call their enemies by names that make them seem not quite human-inferior, contemptible and not like ‘us’ ”(Lakoff 7). They might not be on battle field but their minds are still in solider mode. Also, “Civilians back home also need to believe that what their country is dong just the necessary , and the killing they are supporting is in some way different from the killing civilian life that is rightly punished by the criminal justice system.” (Lakoff 8). We have to see the real picture we go on with our daily lives. I believe the killing our soldiers are doing is necessary. They have to do whatever to protect us none of our enemies care about our life, so why should we care about theirs. Logos is the element of this
Just like solider around the world call their enemies names. Did you know “Soldiers, and those who remain at home, learn to call their enemies by names that make them seem not quite human-inferior, contemptible and not like ‘us’ ”(Lakoff 7). They might not be on battle field but their minds are still in solider mode. Also, “Civilians back home also need to believe that what their country is dong just the necessary , and the killing they are supporting is in some way different from the killing civilian life that is rightly punished by the criminal justice system.” (Lakoff 8). We have to see the real picture we go on with our daily lives. I believe the killing our soldiers are doing is necessary. They have to do whatever to protect us none of our enemies care about our life, so why should we care about theirs. Logos is the element of this