The Powe of Words in Wartime

1) Words have the power to destroy not only a person but an entinre country. They give a sense of comfort for those who are kiling another individual because in their eyes they are not killing a human being but something less than that
2) I think she is right, we tend to polarize things and go into the us verus them group. It is common for us to describe somebody we do not understand or agree with as "enemy" because it carries a sense of danger to it that gives us an excuse to harm another individual. To attack another is not natural, but socially construted for compassion is the first response.
3)I see it as the way a war starts, language and war are not separate entities but one, because one cannot exists without the other. If you create war you need a language to be able to function in a certain manner (ex. killing without regret) and if you start with a language that demeans other people then you already have the spark to fire a war.
4) I actually believe she is right. In every environment there is a languagethat goes along with it, no matter if you are in art, politics or war. If you have that language embeded in your skull and as a soldier you kill others without regret, then it is not going to stop. And even is you come to a point where you realize that what you are doing is really wrong you just might continue to ignor the attrocities you've made in order to maintain your sanity.
5) I believe it was important to make us understand that our actions carry extreme consequences. If somebody tells us that someone is doing something terrible to us we tend to ignore that we might be doing the same back to them and we develop a power hatred against the other side and refuse to accept that in order for that to hapened two parties are necessary. If we learn that we dehumanise first and what it does it is easier for us to realize that they do the same to us because that is how a war functions and we should come to a point where we decide to just eliminate war because it is the right thing to do.