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Is humanity sick , or ... ?
When we are kids, we do not hate, reject or fear what's different. Well, maybe sometimes we did because we felt afraid of something. Take for instance, when we are learning how to walk, we fell so many times but we always stood up and kept trying until we could take the first steps. Or , remember those days back in school, when the new exchange student arrived and he or she was completely different from everyone else but some students wanted to get to the new one. These are few examples I could mention here, among many others.
Unfortunately, as we grow up , we learn from the others what hate, rejection, fear are and that we cannot place what is new or different into our lives. Because it is incompatible with our current reality.
Nothing had or has ever been done by people who feared differences. All great discoveries, inventions, theories, relationships and certain historical taboos have been broken by those who encouraged themselves to go and do something uncommon or new.
Racism, homophobia, being against somebody's religion and even small differences , any kind of prejudice are illnesses humanity has. Life is made of differences and will always be. Nothing is the same, not even us.
Finally, I could say, if there is something we cannot accept or live with, there is also something called respect.
"Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society."
Judith Light
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