The Cycle of Violence and Its Consequences : หน้า 10/50

the world where there is sunlight, conflicts are constantly taking place between nations and between individuals. When it is daylight for us and the other side of the world is blanketed in darkness, we reverse roles in a cycle of endless killing and violence. These never-ending wars and battles originate from clouded and misguided minds of people. In some instances, the people who initiated war will reason that they are really fighting to establish peace. The truth of the matter is that war causes physical and psychological damage, more suffering and death. To argue that war brings peace is to argue that the best way to put out a fire is to douse it with a bucket of gasoline. Wars only serve to fuel the hostility and hatred between the combatants and multiply the atrocities – moving the possibility of peace even further away from our grasp. Worldly conflicts have never been able to bring lasting happiness to anyone. The victorious may one day be defeated. The conquered, instead of accepting defeat, allow resentment and revenge to fester in their hearts. Mutual distrust and hatred bind the conqueror and the conquered together in misery long after the actual war is over, and both sides will suffer the consequences of their hostility, generation after generation. In some countries, people live in dread under the constant threat of terrorism. Never knowing when the next attack may take place, they are neither happy nor secure. To eliminate this constant threat of attack, they strike preemptively at their perceived enemies. Instead of reprieve, they find themselves at the centre of a cycle of revenge, with consequences that are more dire than they can understand because what they fail to comprehend is how long the hatred and malice, caused by their