the common wealth of the state is under attack. If they are not ready or willing to die for the common wealth of society then the society will not survive. It is completely necessary for people to put their lives on the line in order to have a strong and powerful state.Walzer also believes that people have the social obligation to society to die for serious crimes such as murder through punishment. Capital punishment for instance is used on such cases and would most definitely have been used in cases such as the Wacco, Texas incident at which David Coresh killed 85 people including 23 children (a lot of whom where his). Had he not died attempting to justify his cause capitol punishment would most definitely have been used. Most of society would have deemed him such a deviant that he would need to die in an attempt to justify his actions. In fact, there is a movie addressing this sole type of punishment called Dead Man Walking in which the main character is sentenced to death by injection for the murder and rape of a young couple.All in all Walzer, I think is correct in his ideas about having an obligation to die for one's state. And although there are many different ways for that to happen-Military, Capitol Punishment etc.- the obligation remains for the most part the same. Such ideas date back as far as the Bible and will not change for a very long time, if at all. Courageous people die for their state; murderers die for their state and society as a whole yet the end result is the same.PS 2081/31/00541-21-0093...
