Ender's Game Argumentative Essay

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The whole world at stake at any moment the buggers could destroy us all and leave nothing behind.We must use our greatest people and leaders to fight and save the human race so that means 7 year old kids? Think about it there have never been kids used in the U.S army to fight big threats that could affect the whole world. This is because kids are not as strong mentally or physically than grown man or woman that could fight more strategically and more efficiently than the kids used in Ender’s Game. Along with that the real world would not trust the fate of the world to be in the hands of a 7 year old kid. Also it could cause kids permanent damage of killing a thing or an entire race. Kids should not be used to fight because it changes them mentally in A negative way and there could be a more efficient way to get the job done.
In Ender’s game the kids they use to fight come out differently than they came in and it affects them in a negative way. For example on page 161 the book says, “Ender wanted to undo his taunting of the boy”. In the quote Ender taunted the kid and did not stop after he realized what he had been doing was wrong. Before Ender entered the program it seemed like he hated bullies and would not approve of
The kids are not built mentally to face the war against the buggers. One example of this would be the U.S army in the real world and how they only use grown men and women to take down big threats because they are more matured and experienced. Instead of getting children to fight in the bugger war the program should have recruited some of the best older military fighters to try and defeat the buggers since it is the fate of the whole world at stake. Also in the book Ender has broke down many times proving that he is not fit or in the condition to fight a whole bugger army. The program overall has the wrong idea of how to approach and win this bugger

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