Humankind likes to believe that it is constantly evolving and ever getting better and better as we become ever more knowledgeable about bending this world to our will and to our supposed overall benefit. Yet, it doesn’t really appear that societies are getting more civil at all, but rather, societies are ever so quick to draw the sword against one another, whenever their will or their desires are being thwarted, wrongly or rightly, by the other. That is why, warfare still exists and persists; and it is also why individual violence against one another remains so distressingly high.
Perhaps it could be said that the only real difference between society today, as compared to centuries and centuries ago, is that our ability to kill one another, is vastly more effective and efficient than it was so back then. Still, it does appear that with so many people around the world, literate as well as understanding that they are entitled to certain unalienable rights, that there has been a marked improvement in the understanding that all humans are entitled to free will, opportunity, and a just society. Yet, despite this implicit knowledge, humankind insists, again and again, that some humans are more equal than others, therefore implying that some humans aren’t really human at all, because of their religious faith, or because of their color, or because of their class status, thereby signifying that they should be viewed as being subhuman, which therefore is the impetus for the destruction of such.
There are plenty of people that truly believe that the way to resolve a problem is not to come to a civil solution through the usage of diplomacy, reasoning, and accommodation, but rather they believe by their actions that it is far superior to simply drop down to the animal level, and let that party which is stronger or more devious, or both, to simply have their way. This thus indicates that people really do believe that by killing the other, that this forever means that the other cannot ever rise again, or to bring trouble, ever again. Regrettably, for all those that buy into this misguided belief, in actuality, a problem that is not properly resolved through positive action that takes into account the validity and worth of the other, but rather deals with such by destructive means as a way thus to silence the other, will not ultimately accomplish this, whatsoever. Remember this well, those that insist upon adding fuel to a fire with their own fire, believing somehow that this won’t thus cause a subsequent conflagration, have it got it seriously wrong, for the only way to put out a fire, is with the sensibility of the prudent utilization of a lot of water.
To somehow believe that a negative action, which has in response another negative action by the other party, will produce a greater good, is fundamentally unsound. The only thing that will conquer evil, is acts of good, for evil that is met by evil, serves only to fuel the fire of evil, and therefore problems that have been dealt with only by violence and unjust actions, will never die, but will keep on coming back at humankind, again and again, until it begins to dawn on humankind that only right actions can overcome that which is wrong, which is the very thing that society needs to concentrate its efforts upon.