Daily writing prompt

If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why?

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If I could change one law, I would make war a crime — not just certain kinds of war, but all of it. War is cruel. War is devastating. War is the failure of peace and love. As a famous American general said, “War is hell.” 

War takes young men (and now young women) and trains them how to kill people and how to destroy their property. Then it abandons them to suffer and die alone.

This is not a new position for me. I’ve hated war from as early as I can remember. As a small boy I used to cry and ask my parents, “Why is there war?” Many decades later, my heart still breaks when I think about war and sometimes, I still cry. it’s hard to see people who are made in God’s image killed by Russian, Ukrainian, Palestinian, Israeli, Yemen Huthi, American, and NATO bombs and rockets.

Just because governments don’t say that war is a crime, doesn’t mean that it isn’t. I can’t stop war, but I don’t have to agree with it, and I can speak out against it. Here are some more things that I have to say about war:

• My Name is Steven Simms (and Like Stephen Crane, I’m Against War)
• Humanity’s Biggest Failure
• War Welding Politicians
• The Answer My Friend Isn’t Blowing People Up in the Wind
• Was Jesus Crazy About War (or Are We)?
• War’s Off Target. Bombs Away From Cities!
• If War is Hell, It’s Demonic
• Nothing’s Fair in the Shove of War
• Some Accepted War Crimes
• I’m Calling War a Crime
• Warfare’s Unfair
• Quotes About How War Is Failure