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[ladynox25]

It's a measure of how busy my life has become lately that I only just now sat down at my computer and learned about London.

Will we *ever* learn? Will we *ever* wake up, open our eyes, and look around? Will we *ever* see that all the "differences" that we hate about each other, the "differences" that keep us apart, are no more or less than the uniqueness that makes every human being special? Will we *ever* understand that race/religion/belief/age/gender/sexual orientation/disability/ability doesn't matter, that we're all the same inside? That we are all just people? People with lives, with hopes, with dreams, with fears, with doubts, with loves, with hates, and yes, with problems?

How many bombings will it take? How many wars? How many shootings? How many drug overdoses? How many deaths and rapes and robberies and mutilations will be enough? How much carnage will we offer up as a sacrifice on the altars of hate, greed and envy?

Am I wrong to want a better world, with a better race of humans to inhabit it? Am I crazy to think that it might ever someday be possible? Am I crazy? Am I?

How many more headlines will I have to see? How many more times will I have to grieve for strangers I don't know?

God above, how much more can this planet take?

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_constantine/]

This planet has seen much worse, and will see much worse again. Yes, it's horrible, but there cannot be a good without a bad, for what is bad but the absence of good, and vice versa? What is joy but the absence of sorrow? We will never be rid of it for these are the boundaries that define us.

[texas-tiger.livejournal.com]

You have a point, but does it have to be so bad? Does it have to seem like we've made no progress, no evolution towards civilization since the bad old days of Cro Magnon?