Yet the people who draw better cards do very little to help the situation. Humans tend to call themselves a higher species from animal due to our intelect and other stuff. Yet we seem the most bloodthursty species on this planet. We only glorify ourselves trying to hide the fact that we dont really give a damn about anything that doesnt involve us directly.
Egh, I hate this common, pessimistic view of the human race.
The development of the means to interact with and travel to places and people FAR removed from our own lives is a relatively recent, rather unnatural phenomenon.
Humans aren't wired to go out of their way like that, they're wired to take care of their and their own, just like every other creature on the planet.
Compassion for others, the concept of selflessness is an entirely human-made concept. In itself it's a miracle that human beings work to help each other at all. This is why those who make sacrifices for and in the name of others are so celebrated.
I suppose it's a great thing that we're our own worse critics as a species, and want to hold ourselves to a higher standard, but I hate this concept that we fail to live up to those ideal standards of companionship because we're human. My feeling is that humanity is irrelevant in the matter. What we call "human", is what ought to be called the result of a certain measure of intelligence crossed with free will. In other words, I believe another world with creatures as smart as us who are also self-aware would look roughly the same as we do at our point of development.
Terrible things happen in our world. People do awful things to each other in one way or another. And so some people believe that people are evil. But this is not so at all. People, are in fact, just people. Circumstance and fortune rule what we do in our lives. But what is not understood, and so underrated is that by all means our world SHOULD be a cesspool of selfishness, a dog-eat-dog pit that everyone is trying to climb higher out of.
That's the real miracle, is that in the end, whether we do it or not, we WANT to be at peace with our fellow man, we WANT to coexist with humans and with nature. This concept is the ideal world of most of our species, and it is for this reason that I firmly believe our world is as good as we could hope for in our time on it. We may get even better, and it is because of that desire to hold ourselves to this higher standard that we will. We may never achieve it, but do not overlook that the desire many humans have to contribute to something greater than themselves, for the betterment of those outside themselves, is a true miracle.
We are not perfect, and we never will be. But we want to be, and that is what is important.
