The powers that be and the informed citizenry have a duty to humanity. We may be incapable of keeping it because of our own inadequacies as honorable beings, nonetheless, our consciousnesses serve to remind us that notwithstanding, we owe more than a guilty feeling. In most instances we decide to choose the formula of immediate cynicism to justify our inaction. If it doesn't directly affect us then we can somehow justify that it isn't in our own best selfish interest. That form of placating eventually allows for the horrible and atrocious to become more of an irritant and less a plague. Plus, the further removed from the abysmal circumstances the more immune we are to what the horrific acts actually deliver. The head in the sand like an Ostrich, is the metaphor and nothing less is it's equivalence. The constant forces of fear and the tiring effects of battle tend to make us weak and therefore less noble. The thing is though, is that regardless of fear and weariness, we must still live with ourselves and the memories we accumulate. No amount of illusion or falsehoods can remove the stain of us knowing that we have failed at a duty so important. Regret and remorse are as powerful as love and caring, so the question is, how do we learn to realize that everything in life matters, especially the big things that define who we are? How do we build the foundation of duty to each other in such a way that when any form of wrong or atrocity that may happen, we act on the duty as a force of our will and not a force of our won't?
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