Good Speech “Should government spend money on weapons?”

Spending more money on weapons means government is neglecting the quality of life and development within the country. Do you agree with this statement?

Spending money on weapons is important for security and defence, but it definitely demands an explanation if a nation spends excess on its armoury.

Third world nation needs to priortise their development and economic growth while budgeting. Overspending on weapons  would not allow them to properly fund healthcare, education, industries, technology and so on where their requirements are higher. Quality life cannot be put at stake just in the name of defence. Merely wasting money behind buying of arms, like Pakistan does, may lead to high dissatisfaction. But then, there are countries having serious conflicts with each other, like India-Pakistan, Iran-Iraq, Israel-Iran, where wars could break out anytime. There are countries where a high crime rate calls for spending on weapons for internal security. Furthermore, terrorist attacks have become a pain in the neck of many countries.

Developed countries are able to direct more funds for the research and production of new weapons to raise their stocks of weapons or even sell them. Even their stockpiling huge amounts of new weapons seems unjustified as their intentions are often just to remain in power more than anything else. The arms race  started by developed countries also influences the developing countries to follow them and thereby wasting a lot of funds. Alternatively, this huge sum of money can be spent on improving quality of life worldwide and advancing technology further for the betterment, for example behind immunization, space exploration.

No country wants its strength to be wasted in wars, and organizations like UNO are there to mediate warring countries. This has caused a reduction in the chances of wars. Moreover, now when we are heading towards a robust globalization, countries would be needing more support and cooperation from one another and this can happen only in a state of peace and harmony. It is better if countries unanimously decide upon minimizing weapon usage and spending on it as there are other areas to worry about.