Mankind can't get
along.
This is a relatively sweeping statement, but in essence it's true. Oh, sure, various groups can get along most of the time, and the majority tend to go about their business without resorting to lethal levels of violence, but on the whole, Mankind will never get along.
Why do I say this? Because Mankind is made up of individuals and individuals don't always get along with everyone else. Any group of individuals (defined as three or more people) will sub-divide into another, smaller group in SOME way. Ultimately, someone will be left standing alone, either by preference or by group design. This doesn't necessarily mean that these sub-divided groups are all mutually hostile to each other - after all, they ARE part of a larger group - but the fact that they do sub-divide into groups with non mutual views shows the inherent fragmentation that is a natural instinct of Humanity.
Even if you can find someone who gets alone with EVERYONE, not everyone else will get along with them. Hence the problem persists.
Insofar as mutual cooperation goes, people CAN get together for short times to cooperate toward a mutually desired goal. But after that, things always fall apart. And given the wide range of human behaviors, it's inevitable that some will resort to violence. The question is, WHY?
No one will ever get along with everyone else all of the time. This means that no matter how much violence you apply toward one group to get them to cooperate, there will be individuals in that group who violently oppose mutual cooperation. But since it's much easier to be violent than it is to find the ways and means of mutual cooperation (including tolerating one another's non-violent, but differing behaviors), violence will persist as the first choice of action for those who oppose mutual cooperation.
Now, the key word here is 'mutual'. Mutual cooperation. This doesn't mean that one side wins and another side must cooperate with the first side. This means both sides (or all sides, regardless of numbers) find common ground in which their differences can be tolerated. But that takes too much effort and even if it's found, some swinging dick in some group is going to find something intolerable about it and do something violent about it.
So the fact is, that though the vast majority of us can actually find something upon which we can mutually agree, there will always be fringe groups who can't, and will express their displeasure over the situation violently. Will it change the situation? No. Governments can be swayed. People can't. And until we all learn that people hold the power, and learn how to deal with people, we are all going to be our brother's killer.
This is a relatively sweeping statement, but in essence it's true. Oh, sure, various groups can get along most of the time, and the majority tend to go about their business without resorting to lethal levels of violence, but on the whole, Mankind will never get along.
Why do I say this? Because Mankind is made up of individuals and individuals don't always get along with everyone else. Any group of individuals (defined as three or more people) will sub-divide into another, smaller group in SOME way. Ultimately, someone will be left standing alone, either by preference or by group design. This doesn't necessarily mean that these sub-divided groups are all mutually hostile to each other - after all, they ARE part of a larger group - but the fact that they do sub-divide into groups with non mutual views shows the inherent fragmentation that is a natural instinct of Humanity.
Even if you can find someone who gets alone with EVERYONE, not everyone else will get along with them. Hence the problem persists.
Insofar as mutual cooperation goes, people CAN get together for short times to cooperate toward a mutually desired goal. But after that, things always fall apart. And given the wide range of human behaviors, it's inevitable that some will resort to violence. The question is, WHY?
No one will ever get along with everyone else all of the time. This means that no matter how much violence you apply toward one group to get them to cooperate, there will be individuals in that group who violently oppose mutual cooperation. But since it's much easier to be violent than it is to find the ways and means of mutual cooperation (including tolerating one another's non-violent, but differing behaviors), violence will persist as the first choice of action for those who oppose mutual cooperation.
Now, the key word here is 'mutual'. Mutual cooperation. This doesn't mean that one side wins and another side must cooperate with the first side. This means both sides (or all sides, regardless of numbers) find common ground in which their differences can be tolerated. But that takes too much effort and even if it's found, some swinging dick in some group is going to find something intolerable about it and do something violent about it.
So the fact is, that though the vast majority of us can actually find something upon which we can mutually agree, there will always be fringe groups who can't, and will express their displeasure over the situation violently. Will it change the situation? No. Governments can be swayed. People can't. And until we all learn that people hold the power, and learn how to deal with people, we are all going to be our brother's killer.
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