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The main reason why children should not be allowed to engage in work at an early age is because in most third world countries they have very difficult jobs in fields like: agriculture, industry, that require no specific high qualification but mere physical effort. If a child is exposed to a highly demanding job from a physical point of view, this child shall be a good worker but only for a short period of time, his productivity shall diminish in time. A child that has been working from the time he was 10-12 years old, as a result of physical depletion will start having health problems and by the time he reaches the regular working age, he shall be incapacitated and replaced by younger workers. Imagine that a person of 30 years old is no longer capable of physical work in a third world country : 1. that person in most cases has a family and has to provide food for more than one person, this meaning he needs a bigger salary; 2. Being exposed to labour from an infantile age, that person has not pursued any proper education and does not have a professional qualification for a job that would require less physical effort, but would be more rewarding from a financial point of view; 3. That person shall not have any other option but to force his children to engage in labour in order to support the family's financial needs.

The bottom line is that if not regulated by proper labour legislation, child labour shall result in a vicious circle that has a deleterious effect on the people of a country by reducing the general life span, moreover it has a detrimental impact on the economy of the country.

A more pragmatic person would say that people are the most productive resource of a country and the work force is the main pillar of a country's economy. The phenomenon of child labour, on a long run, leads to a weak productivity and constant poverty level of third world countries.

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Norms of International law forbid declaration of war. Legislation is only effective if it is enforced properly. The country that declares war should be aware that the risk they assume is not only the closing down of embassies and ending of diplomatic cooperation or economic cooperation, but also the fact that other countries will enforce all the necessary measures to try and prevent it, including self-defense. An eye for an eye is absolutely unethical, but in some cases war is justifiable and it makes perfect rational sense to respond to war in order to preserve peace on the long term and prevent grave crimes like genocide.

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Some people say that war is a threat to democracy and the basic human rights. My response to them is the following :

A case in which war is necessary are the revolutions. Take for instance the example of The French Revolution of 1789 which was indeed a bloody revolution but people were being oppressed by the absolutist regime, they wanted to achieve democracy, they wanted to have fundamental rights. The outcome was clearly significant: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the actual French Democracy, the French Constitution, even the American Constitution is an indirect consequence of the French Revolution and the ideas of the revolution. Of course on might say that democracy could have been achieved by other means. Peaceful means of achieving are: 1. Including Consensus; 2. Long lasting - time which is spend on reaching consensus is time in which the tyranny is still in force ; 3. People that want to make a peaceful reform throughout history have been declared enemies of the state and prosecuted by the dictatorial regime; 4. The consensus is made by two parties which are rarely equal in power. 5. In some cases peaceful reforms are led by the same dictator, and he is merely changing the color of the party and the people in order to satisfy the general will of the electorate. By this they obtain the trust of the people and can still express their influence in almost all economical sectors. Example of such countries - most of the former Soviet Republics.

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Global warming is not the exclusive consequence of war. Industrialization is also responsible for the ozone hole. War is not directly responsible for a high rate of skin cancer - this is absurd. So far there have been absolutely no record of people dying because of global warming. This argument in my opinion is completely irrelevant, furthermore there are people that believe that global warming is a perfectly natural global phenomenon and its effects have been merely emphasized by the irrational massive industrialization in the 20th century. There is no proof that the people that have been saved from genocide by war will be killed by global warming later, people that are saved through war from getting slaughtered have the right to live.

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How about wars in Africa, that are a result of political crisis and dictatorship. The economy is in stagnation because countries like Russia and the USA are interested in selling them ammunition instead of helping them build schools or hospitals. Political leaders in Africa have chosen to direct their resources and finances to buying more guns and engaging in wars instead of trying to prosper, build a stable economy, eradicate corruption and so on. War not only is a crime but it also has a negative impact on economy, because war generates chaos and in chaos most crimes are committed. What you are talking about is war-profiters, which should be declared criminally liable for unjust enrichment. (e.g. The Krupp factory in during Nazi Germany)

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I totally disagree with the idea that USA has the right to declare war because 1. You cannot blame an entire nation for the crimes of certain individuals; 2. USA used war as a political tool in order to gain influence in the Middle East; 3. Tell the soldiers that have been crippled in the war that they had to risk their lives only to protect the nationalistic pride and dignity, and because a symbol had collapsed.

2 752 people died in the WTC incident and of course it is a tragedy. The war in Irak has caused over 2 million casualties of not only "terrorists" but civilians as well ... Tell me one thing, why does US authorities consider that 2.000 American lives are worth 2 mil irakian lives?

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