Genocides are not inevitable. Humans were not created to kill each other, their instinct is not designed to think this way. This fact is what differs humans from animals, we have the capacity to reason and understand that everyone has the right to live and nobody is allowed to take control of nobody else. Animals, in the other hand, must kill each other to survive and that is what their animal instinct tells them to do. Therefore, genocide is not the way humans are, and it is not inevitable. Genocides have been occurring throughout history and are still going on today, but if we continue reacting the same way as we do now, genocides will never cease to happen. We are not able to control the feeling of people, and we cannot stop somebody from thinking he is superior than somebody else, but what we can do is stop these people from carrying out massive murders to a particular race or ethnic group, by combining our strengths and taking part in this conflict. Of course, we are the only ones that are able to stop this from happening, and if nobody takes the first step genocides will continue to occur. The security of our own country is obviously very important, but so is the security of many other millions of people that feel impotent and miserable because nobody is willing to help them solve this situation.
Genocides will continue to happen–it is inevitable–it’s the way humans are.
April 15, 2008 by claudiarribas