Moral Relativity-Child Suicide Bombers

Ryan Margroff Introduction: Child suicide bombers is immoral. Being a suicide bomber is a decision is not an easy decision. The countries that use suicide bombers are usually countries that are fighting a war on their soil. The fact that children are being used is wrong. The children cannot make their own decisions. Whatever dictatorship the child is a part of does not know what is wrong and right. Suicide, by itself, is immoral. Making children do it is worse. There is not moral relativism claim to excuse this. As stated in the video, they aren"t very knowledgeable about the war. They are told that their vest isn"t filled with explosives, which is not true. This should not be considered suicide. It should be considered murder. It is murder. They press a button when an American or a NATO member walks by. That is immoral. This is normal in their country, so they think nothing of it. The Taliban is one of the worst groups of people in the world. Their notoriety comes from killing people. They kill these kids, it is not suicide. They are taught from an early age, "Suicide leads to Paradise." The kid talking in the video mentions that he did not read the Quran that much. It is going against the Quran to commit suicide. They arrest anyone who does not pull the switch to detonate the bomb. With that thought in mind, a child would not go against the Taliban leaders. They are placing a threat on these kids to commit suicide. They put a false impression of God and the Prophet, also upon the Holy Quran. When a kid thinks that suicide and those false impressions are wrong, they arrest them. To compare this to where I am and where I come from, which is very difficult to do, I am not very religious, but there is a basis in which all Americans follow. The Taliban is not following their Quran, and they are not allowing these kids, their future to do the same. This is as bad as Hitler and his Nazis. We, as Americans, do not think very highly of the Taliban. We have been in war with them since their attacks on the Twin Towers. The leaders show the children videos of other suicides being committed. They are taught that they should do the right thing for their country. Looking at the world today, there are not many of these groups left. There a few dictators stealing the headlines on CNN every week in North Korea and in Russia. Sometimes you are reminded about the Taliban and it is cause of these horrible bombings. We are reminded that these are bad and against our set of rules. They are not considered bad there because there are no rules. In class on Wednesday, James mentioned how fights have no rules. Their day-by-day life is a huge fight. There are no rules and the game plan is to kill. Their leaders are on top of a notorious list: the World"s Most Wanted. That is not by accident. They do not have any cares except they want the most power and a little bit of headlines every here and there. They see these kids as useless tools to exert pain on their opponents, who is just about anyone not in the Taliban. When countries are worrying about the future, they are not. They are worrying about themselves. This will not be an issue in 20 or 30 years. It is a huge issue now, even though no one is talking about it. We hear there was a bombing and see only five people died. The common follow up question is: how many Americans? None. Okay, good. What they are doing is immoral. They are not giving the kids a chance to grow up and make their own decisions. They are lying to them. They are telling them to flip the switch and when they do not, they are arrested. These leaders did not go through this because they are the ones that started it. What they are doing to these kids, from an early age, is altering their life to the way they want it, not the way the kid wants it. There are false stories and impressions surrounding them. When they want to step outside the circle, they are arrested. Arrested is better than suicide, but when you are a bomber, the group of leaders see value in you. When you go against them, they all do not like you, and life is worse from then on. There is not an end to this. Apparently, the only end is "Paradise". 1)Children cannot make their own decision. 2)Suicide is immoral. 3)They aren"t knowledgeable. (15:29) 4)They are lied to. (15:35) 5)The Taliban"s usage of child suicide bombers cannot be excused by any moral relativism claim.