The Monsters you Made

When you consider all the evil happening in the world right now, it's hard to imagine why there aren’t many more villains in the world.?This is probably because it's expensive to become a villain and takes a lot of intellectual and monetary resources, aside from these factors I think we would have many more villains in the world today. Of course,?we can’t objectively blame anybody for the difficulties we face, it's not the fault of any specific person alone that's why villains usually go against ideas, they go against the idea of justice.?How could you possibly ask a person who has only known injustice all their life to become the advocate for justice? There are obviously going to be problems in the world which will create divides between different groups of persons,?one group will always try to blame the other for their demise, the divide here being between justice and injustice.

Recently, while dining at a restaurant, a couple of kids came in, and they were getting to know each other while waiting for their meal to get ready. Sitting close by, I could clearly hear what they were saying, and it seemed they both came from the same area and were immigrants in this part of the country. The girl said she was 20 years and had just lost her parents in the conflict while the boy 18 years old was already an orphan from the conflict and now was living by himself while working a menial job to meet his needs and that of his brother,?Check out Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon. These kids were so young and yet were already?forced into adulthood and being independent without any smooth transition in between.?I was moved when I saw the emotionless face this young girl had while saying she had just lost her parents, she said something so emotional without any emotion and the young man could only feel the same.

These are kids who barely even understand what war means without mentioning all the other things they don’t know, and yet this world has made them into cold, emotionless humans. Who is to blame? The government? Revolutionist or just life??Yet we expect such people to just grow up loving and caring for others like nothing happened, we expect them to be all smiles and to act decently.

Injustice

There is injustice in the world, it didn’t start here and will definitely not end here. There isn’t a specific solution out here to deal with this, even flooding the economy with free money won’t fix a thing, so since injustice is common we assume that everybody should be ok with it and just go by his own business. Since we can’t really blame any specific person for all the things wrong which happen to us, we then choose easy targets on whom we can focus our hate on, maybe rich people, maybe the government or even the random people we meet in the streets.?We are all victims of injustice in one way or the other,?some people just have it way worse than others and tend to resent this discrepancy. I don’t even think there is an explanation to the injustice we all suffer, why did it have to happen to those kids? What did they do differently, or how could any of us avoid the evil hands of injustice? It has just become a part of society, and we just accept it, we just have to deal with being hurt like it didn’t hurt.

Who is to blame

It's difficult to blame something which isn’t physical, which isn’t material and which can’t feel any emotions, this is because we are emotional beings, and we do get some relief and gratification from seeing other emotions. That's why it's not fun to punch an emotionless bag of rice, but?just knowing that another person is feeling our vengeance can bring us the satisfaction we want. They can’t blame the system, they can’t even blame life itself because all those things are immaterial and have no emotions, so hurting them isn’t going to bring anybody any form of satisfaction.?We all need someone to blame, that person who can take the fault for everything that is happening to us, that person we can watch feel the same emotions we’ve been through and somehow make us feel a lot less bad than we did. So you can’t tell these kids to blame the guns which took away their parents or the sociopolitical problems which justify the war,?they’ll rather blame people who have emotions and who can feel all of their wrath. In the same way, whenever any of us feels the cold hands of injustice, we all seek who to blame, even if that person could just be in the mirror.

Right the Wrong

Is there really any balance here at the end of the day, in a war there aren’t really any winners,?just those who were hurt a lot less?and the ethical lines just get lost through all the killing. When the war drags on for too long, everybody just wants it to stop, no matter who was right at the start

Winning is not fighting in the first place

There are obvious instances where the injustice comes from identifiable sources, in some other instances it's not easy to tell who is right and who is wrong. People fight for their own interests and this may devolve into a question of survival, if you were in their shoes you would surely do the same thing.

The Cycle of hate

In the eternal bid to strike balance, we are stuck in this everlasting cycle of hate where the?good guys today become the bad guys of tomorrow and by seeking retaliation we are always calling on retaliation on to ourselves too.?I don’t necessarily have a way to deal with this, but the question I always try to ask myself?if I would have done things differently if I were in their shoes.?The injustice is just a subsequence of unfortunate events and blaming it on individuals won’t stop it nor vindicate us in any way, just serves to continue this cycle of hate.

You made us into the monsters we are, so how can you blame us, we are just a product of our environment.

What could I say to these kids to end the cycle of hate? To prevent them from resenting everybody and recover their lost emotions. They are losing faith in the world and their lives are just full of difficulties, in the same way, I think they’ll just transfer these emotions on to other persons.

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