The horrible videos of the suffering of children in Aleppo makes one wonder about the perpetrators of such crimes. Whatever be the cause of the fight, is it so much more important than lives? Is it just the piece of land, or the politics or the fragile ego that is more important?
Cruelty itself is not new. Historically, cruelty has surfaced time and again in the enslaving of peoples of different races in the most barbarous ways; in the Holocaust; in the underhand war tactics that are aimed not just at trained soldiers but the innocent. At the individual level, there is the bullying, the abuse, the tortures...
Is this the basis of superiority of human lives? Is it founded on the idea of power and strength, of feeling invincible when seeing someone else suffer, especially at our own hands? Why do the others who may not be cruel still tolerate, and even aid sometimes, in perpetuating this cruelty in the name of self-preservation? The cruel brigade swells in no time, fueled by the self-preservers and followed by those who silently watch by.
And even if your soul protests, what is your one small cry against the horrendous sound of gunfire; or the roaring silence of chemical attack?
We destroy the very land that sustains us,the ecology on which our own existence depends, the people who are separated purely by boundaries - of the heart. Is there any salvation for mankind? We sow what we reap. So if we suffer, we know whom to blame... Only ourselves. And it is only in our total annihilation that this cruelty will end.
Cruelty itself is not new. Historically, cruelty has surfaced time and again in the enslaving of peoples of different races in the most barbarous ways; in the Holocaust; in the underhand war tactics that are aimed not just at trained soldiers but the innocent. At the individual level, there is the bullying, the abuse, the tortures...
Is this the basis of superiority of human lives? Is it founded on the idea of power and strength, of feeling invincible when seeing someone else suffer, especially at our own hands? Why do the others who may not be cruel still tolerate, and even aid sometimes, in perpetuating this cruelty in the name of self-preservation? The cruel brigade swells in no time, fueled by the self-preservers and followed by those who silently watch by.
And even if your soul protests, what is your one small cry against the horrendous sound of gunfire; or the roaring silence of chemical attack?
We destroy the very land that sustains us,the ecology on which our own existence depends, the people who are separated purely by boundaries - of the heart. Is there any salvation for mankind? We sow what we reap. So if we suffer, we know whom to blame... Only ourselves. And it is only in our total annihilation that this cruelty will end.
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