#hardwords

Water to wine and the finest of sands

When all that you have's turning stale and it's cold

You'll no longer feel when your heart's turned to gold.

It isn’t hard to see why so many people in the world are taking to extremes. Not that it’s a good thing; it’s just easy to see how it came about / is occurring. 

When we were all young we were told we had a system that worked in place, a social construct that we could depend on. Yet as we grew older, we came to realize what a lie that was. When change was presented in the name of progress, it was instead halted. No compromises, just simply halted through the power of discrimination and degradation. And so people act, trying to be their own crusaders against the corrupted system that appears to need extremes just to get anything done. 

And yet we wonder where violent extremists come from. Well,maybe if we stopped long enough to ask their opinions of what is wrong instead of outright killing them, we could learn something, learn what brings about that intense hatred that brings people to kill one another. And yet a hypocrisy lies there: the violent extremists cheer when they manage to kill in the name of their cause. But do we not do the same when we kill them in turn? We are simply saying: “We said you were wrong, but we’re doing it too, so here’s more validity to your cause.” 

In short, violence, segregation, discrimination, rigidity; all have never served the progression of this world, but instead they have all done the opposite. It has encouraged violent extremists to show the world what it’s doing to itself, in very horrific ways. And if you tell me that killing was “necessary” and that somehow justifies  your actions of killing other humans, think again. That’s how violent extremists justify their cause. Because for some reason they believed killing necessary. And when we show them we think the same, do you think they’ll stop? Or will that validity cause them to grow?

Basically: stop telling yourself that physically/mentally harming someone was the right thing to do, for any reason, because it is not. Granted, sometimes doing so is necessary in life or death situations. But necessary justifies nothing. Physical / mental harm is wrong. Period. And nothing will change that.

Because while everyone else cheers at the death of violent extremists, I cry at the loss of yet another life. What they do isn’t right. But killing them? Who made us the gods of life and death?

“How do we stop them then?” You ask. We are in an age where we could design and make a tranquilizer bullet that could stop someone without killing them. Among a myriad of other non-killing possibilities. Yet we’ve chosen the quick, easy, and honorless path of death. 

And next time you cheer at someone’s death, I want you to pause for a moment and think. Think of that person’s eyes losing that spark of life as blood coats the area around them. Think of what went wrong in that person’s life, and that in the end they weren’t shown a better way to do things, they were shown their own violent ways against them. Which does nothing but justify the violent acts of the violent extremists, in their own twisted logic. 

All because in over 5 millennia the human race hasn’t tried hard enough to find more ways to believe in our fellow human beings. Instead, we’ve found more ways to hate one another. And what the fuck does hate do for anyone? Nothing but pain.

And death.