Humanity can be evil. We have done things to each other that leave us mystified later on. Genocide, rape, murders, war, abuse etc. We often make excuses for what we do...it's for the good of the people, it's a necessary evil...the excuses go on and on. We sometimes accept the excuses we are given perhaps in a desperate bid to fool ourselves into believing that nothing bad is happening. This is what happened in Nazi Germany. Hitler and the Nazi party convinced the German public that the mistreatment and deportation of Jews was for the good of the state and the public believed them and ate up the excuses like they were delicious cupcakes. The point is we do things to each other that for the most part make no sense, but we, the human race, are skilled masters of self-deception. We make ourselves believe that everything bad that happens will somehow lead to something better. So what do we do about this problem? Here's the scary part, collectively...we have no idea. We continually make promises of "Never again." After the Holocaust we said "Never again" but then Cambodia happened and then we said "Never again" and then Rwanda happened and we said "Never again" then Bosnia happened and we said "Never again."
The cycle continues.
Fear is not the answer but what is?
What will happen after the next promise of "Never again?"
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