What I mean is that it is not understandable how we, as humans, can be so technologically advanced, with a level of reasoning that is beyond those of mere animals, and yet, we still act like animals.
What pushed a man [or a woman] to be so violent? Is there something hardwired in their mind that is still so present that once it is awaken, it puts them in a blanked-out state of mind and then their control level is just shut down?
For as long as I can remember, every year, we are wishing ourselves Happy New Year, as if to remind us that we want this year or that year to be one of joy, but at the end, there are always people fighting people, mutilating people, killing people, men raping women, men/women abusing children, and the list goes on. And so for as long as I can remember, everybody says they wanna change, yet, they still remain the same.
And that is... without having a weapon reday in hand. So just imagine what the world can do when they do have a weapon ready in hand?
I have a friend of mine who says that this world's level of violence is so intense that now, he need to have a weapon in order to protect himself.
That is pathetic-thinking.
Everybody knows that if you live by the sword, you will die by the sword, and rarely have I seen anyone live by the sword and lived to tell the tale. Mostly because what goes around comes around.
So if what goes around comes around, why not go with joy so that joy comes back around to you? Maybe because what you see all day everyday on tv, radio, movies [hence the media] is basically what you get.
Truth be told, every morning when you wake up to go to work, you first watch TV or listen to the radio in order to get an update on the weather or something like that, and inevitably, you'll hear something like "A young man, armed with an AK-47, rushed into a shopping mall and killed nearly 50 people before turning the weapon against him and shot himself". And when you hear something like this, you just can't help it but to be angry at this murderer, to which at some point you'd wish that you were the one to put an end to all this by putting a bullet in the murderer's head.
That's how much we [the world] have never changed.
Using violence to suppress violence will never be the answer. Instead, what will happen is that there will be even more violence, and so at the end... at some point... there will be no one left to populate this world (or any other worlds for that matter).
This planet is our home. We are all brothers and sisters in this home of ours. If we don't act like it, at the end, this home of ours will be eradicated.
Think about it!
source: http://www.seekforthetruth.com/2008/01/chapter-9-truth-about-violence.html
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