Its a sad thing, war.
"Funny world we live in. Makes me wonder almost if I want to open up anymore...maybe its the world that holds the evil and men are just reactionary." -- Sarge
Is it possible this is the end to the great "MAN: Good or Evil" debate? That man is neither good nor evil in nature, but just 'reactionary' to the world? Is it possible that Mother Nature and Father Time, those oh so beloved characters we always claim to destroy, are the absolute true villains to our story? Maybe it isn't that anything is evil in and of it's self. Personally I'm of the belief that man is inherently good with failure. We are in and of ourselves born as close to perfection as we ever will be, but with our good traits we have this intense capability to fail at righteousness. and thus we get 'Evil'.
There are those that have a horrid sense of what evil is. It's anything different or abnormal from what we find to be the status quo. Anything that believes different, acts different, looks different. It's the entire basis of hate in the marvel universe Mutants are different therefore the majority of humans find them more 'Evil' then 'Good'. It plays into our everyday lives to, the ones that actually effect US as individuals. Look at fanatics in religion. Cultist Christians claim anything else is pagan and therefore of the 'devil' or misguided. Zealots of any faith have the same beliefs. It is when these maniacs gain control of young minds that problems can and often will arise.
when they force children into their own beliefs and rituals, the world of tomorrow becomes one of intolerance and hate. I'm not speaking on any certain group, let me assure you. We are all guilty of it at one point or another. Yet these armies of children are in and of themselves their own destroyers. A close friend commented the other day on how our own generation is just a group of overgrown children, and really the majority of us have no real right to bear children into the world, as we are still ourselves kids. Generations before us would by now (at my age of twenty) often have been working good hard labour for almost 5-8 years at least. In today's world quite a few young adults don't "need" jobs until they reach 20-22 at the earliest, often then because they are no longer supported by dear mum and dad. If we as today's generation, are children, (and lets face it, even at work we often have toys to play with, many of those who've desk jobs capable of browsing the internet at leisure and running messengers via third party service) how so can we expect our own children, the 'hope' of the future to be anything more than us? Children will make mistake, more readily than adults would, because they lack the experience, and when they gain the experience, their attention is hardly ever on the lesson learned. They're saying sorry just to get back to playing sooner.
How long can a world last with armies at war, armed with adult weaponry, and adolescent minds?
