Conflict Hurts the Powerful and Powerless

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Conflict hurts the powerful and powerless Conflict is a constant momentum hurting the powerful and powerless on a multitude of levels. Conflict is interpretations, beliefs and violence, held between numerous factions, which can contradict morals and righteousness. Conflict can hurt the powerful and powerless, fiscally and ethically. Segregated morals is a conflict which has the ability to hurt the powerful and powerless; in a disagreement, where an action of an individual can represent their acceptance by society. People usually exist in a society with both prevalent and cultured morals, which can oppose ethics held by wider society. In the film “A Separation”, two featured families, Nader’s and Hodjat’s, who hold similar, but different morals to each other; the families force reaction from each other as they each act in discord to each other’s ethics. The families spark a court case, which is rapt in lies. Asghar Farhadi shows how during struggles, even the most reasonable and trustworthy people, show shades of guilt and lie; going against their original principles of honesty. Correspondingly to Farhadi’s film, a moral conflict takes place as the United States want to prevent Russia invading Ukraine. The action of seizing a country is morally incorrect in the eyes of the modern world; meetings between Obama and Putin involved ethics and modern approaches being the main topics. The United States want to prevent Russia taking the country over because it would spark global debate, and potentially world ‘super powers’ may want to exercise their military force and take over smaller countries. This is similar to the situation to Nadar and Hodjat, both fighting because of their independent ethics, for an upper hand; they are disconcerned with resolution. The ethical quarrel of Nadar and Hodjat relates to the global dispute of the United States and Russia, as

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