After seeing Billy's view on life and relativity we go back and see its opposite, a humanistic, naive and emotionally driven way of seeing life and its value. Weary, Billy's "partner" is an 18 year-old kid who hasn't even fired his gun, after being left behind by the two actual soldiers Weary's fantasy of friendship and bravery vanishes. Full of emotion and inmatureness weary beats Billy, this represents his innocence and how emotions blind his view on life and the actual life and their current situation, war. War is definitely no place for emotional and optimistic, corny view that Weary has on life, however it sets a perfect contrast.
Most of the war movies, stories, video games and books are based on victory and epicness opposed to horror or value of life which come along but are never the main theme. This is the complete opposite of actual war in which only dumb, naive kids like Weary think about things like that. In the opening night of "Saving Private Ryan"a group of WWII veterans were invited, the opening scene of the soldiers landing in the beach while being gunned down by a turret was so real that some of the veterans actually left the theatre, even with the happy ending and the final victory the veterans did not enjoy the movie. We sugar coat war with these factors and forget how horrible it is. On the other hand we have the "so it goes" that is the other far side of looking at loss of lives, the ideology claims they are relative however that's why I think Vonnegut makes aliens say this, because its unhumanistic...no human would ever say lives do not matter.
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