Choices
August 26, 2007
What is it about ‘difference‘ that scares us so much? We protest against things that people have no control over: race, who they love, often their religion. Traditions that are forced within the family are nothing more than an extension of our ancestors. We have no more control over our skin color than we do the Earth’s rotation. And the heart is a powerful thing; it forces us to love against society’s standards. And why is that so scary?
Maybe it is because it is so easy to do; it is so easy to make fun of one’s skin color or sexual preference because it is out there in the open. But why do we attack humanity to begin with? What is programmed in our DNA that says that others must suffer? Do we ourselves enjoy being teased, attacked, and tormented? Then what logic do we use to justify such actions towards others? Discrimination makes no sense and should have no place in western civilization. That we can look upon our brothers with distaste merely for being something we are not is appalling.
Someone told me recently that they were the one who messed up their life but that other factors were merely contributors. In other words, no one or no thing was to blame for where she is now but herself. So many want to give control of their lives and where they are over to anything else they can except for their own choices and actions. We choose to pick up the bottle, we choose to rob the bank, we choose to beat our children, and we choose to use racial slurs. Wise are the men who realize that their life is a result of their choices and actions. So why do we choose to be assholes? Why do we choose to make another person’s life a living hell? Why do wish the things upon others that we would not wish upon ourselves?
Western civilization is supposed to be a learned one. How are learned men acting like mindless buffoons?
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