Please call me ignorant, politically unaware, childish and naive, but I want to ask you: why are we still making wars and using weapons in the year 2014? You know when it was okay (= socially acceptable) to kill people for close to no reason? Pretty much since the beginning of times until 300 years ago or so. We killed the neighbouring cavemen to get their dead animals and feed our cavemen families with it for days; we killed people because they didn't believe in God, didn't pay respect money to the church and dared to think for themselves; we burned witches; we killed people so we could steal their political position, whichever that was; we killed unfaithful women; heck, we killed women just because they were pretty much useless for anything else than carrying loads of babies. I am not sure when people decided murder is not a solution for everything, but it certainly was some time ago, and we pretend to have evolved since then. We have technology and smirk at the thought that, back then, people didn't even have electricity, let alone cinemas, e-book readers and Facebook - "How sad, can you imagine they had nothing to do all day?" We have (some more) knowledge of the world and how things work, and are proudly accepting the theories of the world that back then were considered heresies - "Haha they actually thought the Earth was flat!" We pretend to be refined, modern human beings, full of possibilities and opportunities - the only thing that might bother us is that we don't live long enough to use them all!
Under these circumstances, dear world, I dare to ask you - ignorantly, politically unaware, childish and naive - why do we, refined, modern human beings, still kill others? Why do we still have wars over territories, political ideas, religion? Why are we using our modern technology to make weapons that can destroy entire cities and kill (hundreds of) thousands of people? How can we pretend to have evolved in all other aspects but this still remains unchanged? Do we really think that killing 250 people with a surface-to-air-missile is more modern and refined than stabbing them with our own hands, as it was done in the 15th century? Guess what, world: it's not. The fact that we have this technology is not at all 2014, when we make it only to use it like in 1514 - or even worse.
So dear modern world, if you think it is normal to kill innocent people for any reason, if you tell me I don't understand politics, where war is a necessity and someone has to die to make it right, if you tell me it's all about each country's strategy and means to get what they want, here is what I think: you are still living in 1514. You will only be modern, evolved human beings, when your conflicts are solved peacefully and rationally, in an adequate way for the times we live in. When, instead of perfecting your weapons of mass destruction, you perfect your mindset and attitutide towards other human beings. And when your intelligence and knowledge, so advanced and refined, will be invested in making the world better, not worse.
Yours,
Someone who is tired of cliches about "making the world a better place", but finds some meaning behind these "big words"
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