The Giver Conformity Essay

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All over the world, people die everyday due to war, starvation, crime and under development in medicine and technology. Absence of food and technology consumes 30% of the world. With everyone being equal and the same, there would be no crime, no wars and more progression as the human species. Wars would disappear, as people would be united and therefore peaceful. As shown in the novel the giver by Lois Lowry, civilians live in a peaceful and harmonious environment with no conflict or crime. Could this be the future for humanity? One of peace and progression?

First of all, we should enact conformity to drop all war tensions and large-scale conflicts in the world. An estimated 60-80 million people died in world war two with around 40 million of those deaths being civilians. An American soldier fighting in the pacific theatre wrote, “This place is a hell hole. So many civilians have died from injuries and starvation. Some of our men have gone mad”. Many soldiers suffered from post-traumatic stress and never fully lived their lives again. War ruins people mentally, physically and as a population. Even today, wars are devastating innocent people and soldiers especially in the Middle East. Conformity could completely deactivate wars by synchronizing everyone into perfect harmony. …show more content…

Did you know that 12 million people are currently suffering from famine? These saddening statistics are just parts of the painful truth that prove that some parts of the world have fallen far behind when it comes to standards of food and medicine. If everyone was at the standard of a modern first world country, the average longevity of most people could be as high as ninety with developments in technology growing hugely (as all people would be focused of certain developments.) With everyone nourished and healthy, the human species could progress immensely and focus on innovation and begin a new industrial

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