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Picture yourself in the following situation. You have been waiting in line for almost 20 hours without sleep or coffee, waiting desperately for something that you’ve been dying to have for years. This is the opportunity of a lifetime and there are no second chances. However, the scenario changes once a whole horde of people just start bustling through the crowd, all hyped that you lose your place in line. When your turn comes, what you have desired is now all gone or sold out. It was your only chance. Would you rob, knock someone unconscious, or even kill to get what you want?

This might not be as severe, but it all narrows down to this moral question: What gives another human being the right and mentality to think that it is okay to kill another person? Through this article, I want to discuss this matter of genocide in terms of moral standards. I hope that, you, being the reader, will have developed a better to conscious to what is happening in the outside world right now.

Genocide; some say it is cruel while others believe it is a normal practice that can be used often. I say not. Human beings absolutely do not have the right to kill another person for any reason at all. Stop now. I want you to pause and get your mind off bustling miniature problems in your life right now such as your phone bill or your leaking faucet. Just think hard. Who came up with this so-called brilliant idea? A mere human being. Now, that human believes that it is right to kill another human and the practice of genocide can be used. Think about it this way. If that man, or woman, or whatever vile creature of a human it is chooses to kill another of the same species, it starts a chain. This gives the victim the right to fight back, to kill the attacker. However, genocide is the killing of one group of people or persons; such a practice should not be so confusing. You’re wrong. The victim is the same as any other person on earth. They have eyes, ears, hands, legs, and the exact same organs. I wonder, what makes people so stubborn and ignorant, thinking they are better than others? Now, it comes to the bigger question.

Genocide should be allowed to continue to exist in this world, shouldn’t it? From my perspective, no. What kind of disgusting creature thought about genocide in the first place? To kill off another human or a group of them just to feel superior? Take Hitler for example. He was quite the leader, killing off the majority of the Jews so that he and the Germans could reign supreme. He did it out of fear. Excuse me? Yes, I said fear. Some might believe in a different approach, but from what I hear, and conclude, he is a loathsome coward. Fear can change anyone’s lives and such, Hitler used this against the Jews. Jews controlled the majority of the banks and businesses, as if they had the world in the palm of their hands. Hitler despised this. Imposing his own sort of fear upon the Jews, he was able to manipulate the control over to him. Now that’s a leader indeed. Despite my sarcasm, inferiority was placed upon the Jews so that they felt little of themselves. Another thing was, Hitler’s paternal grandfather was half a Jew. With your own mind, one should be able to decipher this issue. Hitler mass murdered the Jews, and if his grandfather was half a Jew, Hitler might have been killing off his own cousins. He might not know of this matter, but since he is only blinded by his own reason for living and his conceited little mind, he cannot see clearly. Cousins, Jews, Germans, they are all humans. And humans, none of them deserve to be treated unequally. From this philosophical question, one can conclude that if one human decides to wreck another individual’s life, the other, as a human being, has the right to retaliate and use your own methods.

Should genocide be allowed and if it happens in other parts of the world, should we put forth our honed efforts to try to stop the cause? There are arguments to both these causes. From my perspective, I have to say yes. Reasons why is because we are all humans. We thrive in this very planet together and should work together to create a better place for everyone to reside in. Why can’t we do that? Greed always has to intrude in the worst of times. But that’s what it means to be human right? Others say that we as living organisms on the planet thrive by competition of resources. This can be argued countless times, and same goes for my general question. Some would counter my argument, saying that we do not have the right to intervene to another country’s private affairs. One does not ram into another person’s property without their permission, and the same goes towards the countries around the globe. But if mass killings were involved and other inhuman acts were enforced, what would you do, where would you stand?

Now, I want to impose another question: Where did we come from? What is our origin? Are we creatures just born to ready be superior? Dating back to millions of years ago, our closest ancestors were the chimpanzees. Yes, you see them in the zoo as creatures in the cage. You’re mesmerized by their tricks and their stunning curiosity. You laugh and tease as they stumble upon toys or make mistakes upon a tree. They are not so different from us. What? Animals you say? Biologically speaking, we are animals. We are directly descended from the animal kingdom. Animals lived in peace and harmony, until they have all evolved completely into another species, species that learned to think for benefits for themselves. Corrupting the world with pollution, technology, and waste, the humans think so highly of themselves because of their so called “achievements.” I think that these “achievements” are more of factors that can de-evolve our community. Animals in the past never had such competitive resources to consume. It is only in our days, that we humans decided to pollute the environment solely for our goals and benefits. We humans morphed our economy to become naught but poison.

Here’s the catch! From continually shaping our government, economy and standards in the entire system, we automatically switch our mentality as if we are the ones who are dominant. This is the key thing to our survival instincts and cockiness. Conceited, we feel nothing towards the nature that we destroy. We are overcome, overpowered, OVERWHELMED, by all these dreams of riches and fame.

Wait, slow down a second here. We have moved from genocide, to the Holocaust, to animals, and now we talk about topics related to the issues of global warming. Why? Because humanity is the main cause all these problems. I could come up with so many possible explanations and guesses. I could dive deeper and analyze the many philosophical questions you have in your mind, anything that you can practically imagine in your head right now. You see? We are the cause of all this commotion upon the planet. If we don’t stop now, even by ending the genocides and hate crimes against other folks, we can better the Earth. But it will be a matter of time before this world is destroyed from constant corruption. As long as we do not listen to reason, we will perish.