If you go to any toy store or even look at the shelves at Wal-Mart in the toy section you will see various war toys.
Things like plastic machine guns, plastic army hats, jet fighter planes and army tanks.
When we were growing up there were G.
I.
Joe's and other such war toys.
I can remember as a team building nearly every 1:72 scale plastic model airplane and World War II Army tank and yet I do not believe that this caused me to love war.
Nevertheless the question has been brought up by some folks that say these toys do indeed glorify war; indeed and maybe they do, I am not a psychologist.
But do war toys of today's children cause wars? I doubt that, as we are not necessarily a nation which runs around causing wars, but rather has been put into a position of being the head police dog to prevent catastrophic leadership failure resulting in human rights abuses, losses of freedom and tyrannical dictators run a muck.
One thing is for sure however and that is that these toys are much more real life and detailed than anything our parents had.
Should our children be subjected to war toys, so they can understand that sometimes the price of freedom costs a lot more than we think? Consider this and debate it amongst yourselves if you like.
Things like plastic machine guns, plastic army hats, jet fighter planes and army tanks.
When we were growing up there were G.
I.
Joe's and other such war toys.
I can remember as a team building nearly every 1:72 scale plastic model airplane and World War II Army tank and yet I do not believe that this caused me to love war.
Nevertheless the question has been brought up by some folks that say these toys do indeed glorify war; indeed and maybe they do, I am not a psychologist.
But do war toys of today's children cause wars? I doubt that, as we are not necessarily a nation which runs around causing wars, but rather has been put into a position of being the head police dog to prevent catastrophic leadership failure resulting in human rights abuses, losses of freedom and tyrannical dictators run a muck.
One thing is for sure however and that is that these toys are much more real life and detailed than anything our parents had.
Should our children be subjected to war toys, so they can understand that sometimes the price of freedom costs a lot more than we think? Consider this and debate it amongst yourselves if you like.
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