Thursday, October 12, 2006 @3:21 PM

Death? What's that? And who decides when it comes to you? Does it happen when someone takes a gun and bang! Blows your brains out in a heart-stopping, split second? Or when you're lying on the floor with slashed wrists, the life eking out of you? Or when you struggle to draw your next breath on the hospital bed, your body ravaged beyond recognition by disease?

Can you tell me, who gave those terrorist groups, those extremist groups, the right to go around planting bombs to kill people, trying to stop girls from having an education, cutting off their ears and noses to punish them?

Why do we constantly hurt each other, why do we always find all sorts of ways to spite other people, to kill them? Why do we say, "Since you can't make the right decisions, you've therefore forfeited your right to make decisions, and therefore, we will make your decisions for you." Who dictated what the right decision should be? The right decision by your own standards? By the way you lead your life? Well, did it ever occur to you that the way you lead your life is your own business?

It's so utterly stupid, utterly ridiculous, how each and every one of us was conceived the same way, in the womb, each of us are made up of DNA, yet we constantly think we are better than others, and we find ways to get power, then use it to marginalise the weaker people, and benefit ourselves. Screw Social Darwinism, because that's bullshit. Living your life according to a theory, now that's real smart.

Please tell me how a human being can kill other people without compunction. Tell me how you can plant a bomb somewhere knowing that it will kill thousands, knowing that thousands of families will have a father, a daughter, a mother, an aunt... gone from them forever. Tell me how you can live with the burden of being responsible for the raw grief and pain these people will go through. Tell me how you can live with having taken away someone else's life, a life that was not yours to lead. So we've taken coal, oil, minerals, precious stones and metals from the earth. We've taken trees, animals, and the ozone layer from the earth. We're running out of things to take from the earth, aren't we? So we turn to taking our own human race.

So throughout life, this is what it's going to be like. It's amazing how we embark on this self-destruction process and remain gloriously blind. We're going to criticise people and judge them based on our own morals and standards. We're always going to act like the way we lead our lives is the correct way. Is the only way. And we will never learn to accept that other people have their own ways of leading their lives.

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