Inhumane Humanity

Humanity as a whole is pathetically inhumane in many ways, and not only to humans. It’s human nature for this to occur. I was reading of how in order for people to be able to do such horrible things to other people and animals they must look at themselves as superior to them. There will always be the masters and slaves as long as there’s a society. I have evidence for saying this. Evidence such as our food industry with any sort of meat, testing on live animals with products of all types, every war in history, and slave ownership in the early colonies. We can make up excuses and “reasons” for doing the cruel acts, but it doesn’t stop the torture accomplished by the whole of society. There are all kinds of reasons we make up to allow and silently support these atrocities’ occurrences. Anything from scientific to faith based reasoning, and still they all are not really good enough for what is actually happening to the victims. As long as there is a reason, logical or not, there will continue to be inhumane acts. The longer inhumane acts continue the more commonplace it becomes. Humanity as whole has forgotten or some how blocked out the reality of the situation, and traded the benefits for the means by which they come.

Yet I believe on the individual scale, at least for the majority of us, that we are not inhumane. Maybe we were taught to be cruel by society where it all was born. For example, if a father were to ask his son to kill an animal, the son’s first reaction would not be acceptance but refusal, for why would anyone want to hurt an innocent creature. Give it time, and the boy would be slaughtering innocent animals without hesitation. The politicians and celebrities have tricked us and our children’s children. They have tricked us out of our lives, beliefs, and futures because we were not born stupid, but we were taught it by “the law of the land.” We’re born with a pure heart and poison it with lies fed to us by the actions of others. “Truth is replaced with silence, and silence is a lie.”