Some people see the world and want to change it any way they can, regardless of the outcomes. Others see the world and want to change it but with ideas that benefit most everyone. We live in an imperfect world and the wrongs that exist are either a good or bad thing depending on one's perspective. That is the problem however, the competing perspectives that would make a policy look good in some eyes and bad in others. We have got to get on the same page here in life or we will continue to struggle against the way we treat each other. This can be done but it will take many having to think out beyond themselves. For the most part, that has been the biggest hurdle we have not yet fully cleared. We seem to be stuck in what the mode of structure we should apply to ourselves. Certainly morality, ethics, justice and equality should all have a part in whatever structure we devise as a foundation for our thoughts and actions, while not inhibiting our own free will to think and create toward innovation and progress. yet we don't even have these discussions on how we learn and mature into society. We need to respect the lives that exist with the same arduous vigor that we do for our own lives. In beginning at respect, we can then build the logic for following onward to the principles we hold most dear, like honor and sacrifice. We are a capable and unique species. We have been given, somehow, abilities that transcend all other species we have encountered. Yet we treat our special advantages with a cavalier sense of deserve that is unfounded in the expression of our out of control egos. We treat life with disdain when it is not ours yet treat our own lives as sacred when asked to gamble on it's forfeiture. The continuity we need is just moments away yet my fear is that the moment may take millenniums to achieve.
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