How did the Vietnam war affect people's morality?

Answer by  timeismoney (994)

Groups of people reacted differently to the Vietnam war, with some guilty about participating, others morally outraged that we abandoned South Vietnam to the Viet Cong, and others morally conflicted between loyalty for country on the one hand and a deep commitment to peace on the other.

Answer by  cpxi (191)

The war made a generation start to question authority and ideas of loyalty. As people saw that their leaders were making decisions that harmed so many innocent victims, both American soliders and Vietnamese soliders and civilians, they started to challend the idea that obedience was necessarily a virtue to strive for.