I do not use appeasement very often because I learned from previous experiences that it does not work very well. Generally when people use appeasement, they let little things slide, and little things build into giant problems that could have been prevented. For example, if you let someone take your food and hope that they won't do it again, you merely encourage them to keep taking more of your things. When my dog was a puppy, he would beg and annoy my entire family, and we would appease him by giving him some human food, and now he chews up things such as shoes and pillows.
Appeasement is different than compromisation because when you compromize with someone, you may lose something, but you gain something as well. When you appease, you just lose and as time goes on, you lose more and more. World War II happened because everyone appeased Germany and let the Nazis grow very strong. Nobody bothered to compromize, and most countries paid for it with lives. Therefore, I think that appeasement should not be used and compromization should be the method of choice.
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I do understand your point of view jackson, but I think you have overlooked some very important details. For instance, when you make a compromise you are generally losing more than you would with a compromise, and also it is much harder to reach a compromise than it is to simply appease where it is needed. Also very many countries at this time, plagued with economic troubles, had to focus their attention on internal troubles instead of focusing on a compromise with germany. just things to consider.
ReplyDeleteI agree with a lot of the points mentioned by TC. The one thing that was unique about yours that a lot of people had trouble understanding was the difference between appeasement and compromise, and I really liked how you addressed that in your post.
ReplyDeleteI think that you have some good points of Appeasement, the only question that I have is how would there have been a compromise in this particular case. Of course a compromise is ideal, but it almost seems as the powers had to appease to Hitler because if they tried to intervene, then there would have been a war. Also if you compromise, wouldn't Hitler want to keep making compromises until he had what he wanted. He might have said that if they didn't let him take land or build up their army, there would have been war. This is basically the appeasement that they were forced to do. It is almost a compromise already.
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