英語検定ライティング準１級の第524回）

若者の犬死に「痛くない安楽死を希望する話」

北朝鮮がロシアとウクライナの戦争に参加している。充分な装備もなく前線で若者が死んでいる。80年前の神風特攻隊を想起させる。北朝鮮とロシアはお互いに利益がある。前者は米国や日本との複雑な交渉から解放される。後者は自国の若者を戦争に巻き込まなくて済む。結局は戦争で死ぬ若者が損をする。
In recent days, several TV programs have reported that North Korea has participated in the war between Russia and Ukraine, where numerous young soldiers drawn from North Korea have been killed in front of the battlefields.
They are reported to be equipped with few necessary weapons, which forces us to associate their situations with those of Kamikaze Suicides about eighty years ago.
Both North Korea and Russia won’t fail to have anything beneficial : the former could be released from something complex with America, Japan and South Korea, he says.
In short, North Korea has failed to get along with these hostile countries so far, but a friendly relationships with Russia could overcome these burdensome troubles.
Simultaneously, the latter could avoid sending their own young soldiers into the deadly and lethal circumstances.
Countless Russian young citizens wouldn’t be involved in something threatening and frightening, an article says.
After all, what matters the most might be that numerous promising young citizens from North Korea won’t fail to be killed somewhere they have no relation, to our sorrow.

人間はそもそも自分の利益を最優先に生きている。確かに大切な人を苦しめたくはない。だが血が繋がっていても憎しみを感じる他者もいる。むしろ関係が近いほど相手の性格の悪さを痛感する。今はほとんど第三次世界大戦だ。社会はますます全体主義化する。息苦しさで不登校が増加する。自由も奪われる。
Humans prioritize our own benefits and advantages in the first place : it is true that we don’t want someone the most friendly to suffer from something unreasonable, but we absolutely have someone we cannot but hate, even when these people are someone in our own families or a relative, which might be something unfortunate, he says.
On the contrary, the closer our relationships seems to be, the more malicious we feel towards one another, he says.
It must be because humans cannot but be someone with selfishness and self-centeredness, an online article says.
We might consider the current international situations as the World War 3, which couldn’t fail to make our society even more totalitarianism like the notorious prewar.
More and more students have been reported to reject attending their schools because they cannot enjoy their own personalities, which are deprived of by the teachers.
Simultaneously, they are robbed of freedom and liberties at school because almost all of the teachers are robbed of something indispensable as one of precious humans.
We don’t want ourselves to be treated as a slave.