Why Are Child Soldiers Wrong
You sit in a trench and wait for your orders to come. You look left and right to see your comrades sitting with you, but they aren’t grown men and women, they are children. Your mind is unsteady and lightheaded from the drugs you were given. When you look out of the trench you see children only eight years of age marching into a village and burning everything down to a smoldering ash. Some children do it for protection others doing it for their religion. Hundreds of lives were taken when the village burned down, and it was all at the hands of children. Child soldiers have been in existence for years. People believe that child soldiers should be punished for their crimes and put into jail, but why? Why would you put a little one in jail when they were told what they were doing was right? These minors have not been given the proper chance to live a life to the fullest of their potential.
Although child soldiers have been programmed since birth, to be fair that just means they are more dangerous than anyone ever …show more content…
“Khadr’s father took him to visit al Qaeda leaders when he was 10 and to a military training camp when he was 15.” (Andrea Prasow, page 3) What this evidence suggests is that some of these children were, and are, influenced by family to join a military when they are younger than the age of 18. There are cruel man and women in this world and they will use anyone, even children, to get what they want. People have chances to take second chances that have been laid out in front of them, but they decide not to take the chance. “We only had two things to survive [an AK-47 and a big package of cocaine]” says a former child soldier named Ishmael. He knows what it’s like to get a second chance from the horrors that he had caused. The world today is a jungle and we as people get a second
Although child soldiers have been programmed since birth, to be fair that just means they are more dangerous than anyone ever …show more content…
“Khadr’s father took him to visit al Qaeda leaders when he was 10 and to a military training camp when he was 15.” (Andrea Prasow, page 3) What this evidence suggests is that some of these children were, and are, influenced by family to join a military when they are younger than the age of 18. There are cruel man and women in this world and they will use anyone, even children, to get what they want. People have chances to take second chances that have been laid out in front of them, but they decide not to take the chance. “We only had two things to survive [an AK-47 and a big package of cocaine]” says a former child soldier named Ishmael. He knows what it’s like to get a second chance from the horrors that he had caused. The world today is a jungle and we as people get a second