Views on just war between Johnny Got His Gun and America the Beautiful

• Blog – discuss this essay in relationship to the book

The book, Johnny Got His Gun and the essay, America the Beautiful are polar opposites. For me Johnny Got His Gun is probably the most powerful anti-war book I have ever read because it traps you in the mind of Joe, a disfigured WWI solider. This book was a powerful enough emotionally to put me in a depressed stupor. The book Johnny Got His Gun Joe realizes that there are no virtues worth dying for because you will not be there to experience them. Joe says that he can say this because he is the closest thing that there is to a dead man and because nobody will ever be able to refute this because he cannot voice his view since he has no means of communicating. On the other side of the spectrum says that there is a concept of a just war and that America wins wars not by strength of arms but rather by confidence in the morality of the grounds on which the war is waged. This article also argues that freedom and democracy is essentially morally superior to an Eastern style theocracy. This is because people are not made to right but most people choose to do right of their own free will.