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"Oh! The humanity of it all!"
I recall that while watching the WTC collapse on TV, a famous reporter who exclaimed in typical NYC (or maybe Jersey, I'm not sure...) fashion, the following fractured phrase:
"Oh! The humanity of it all!"
What he meant of course was "Oh! The IN-humanity of it all!"; and to hear this utterance on national TV, from a famous media spokesman (having to ad-lib for once, as nobody had actually scripted his remarks) reminded me of just the low-level qualifications these highly regarded personalities actually must hold. I was to say the least, outraged by his addition of this insult to the injury already inflicted by the suicide attackers.
This all came back to mind when my buddy Bob sent this following essay to me this morning, and I thought it interesting enough to post here. (Apologies to you golfers on the board....)
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MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN
This is one of the most irritating and ludicrous phrases known to exist. Man is NEVER inhumane to man! Regardless of what one person does to another person or to a group it is never inhumane.
Man just is. Man is human. What ever he does is done as a human. Humans have certain characteristics.
Some of those characteristics can be cruelty, unkindness, apparent craziness, viciousness, maliciousness, hate, unwarranted prejudice, bias, rage, vindictiveness and spite.
Those characteristics may manifest themselves in torture, murder,
mayhem, concentration camps, rape and in a wide variety of other ways. We tend to call these things inhumane. They are not inhumane. They are just the way some people are.
We tend to believe that the way we believe the world should be is the way it is and the way we believe people should behave is the way they do behave. Therefore anyone that behaves outside of the parameters we set in our mind as correct are inhumane. We do not realize they are just human characteristics in some people.
Ghengis Khan, Tammerlane, Mao, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Ted Bundy, the many other serial killers, the murderers, rapists, muggers and pedophiles are doing human things.
Most of them are not even crazy. Yes I know that is not a proper
medical term but we reasonable "normal" people know what I mean. Many of those people just like what they do.
Most serial killers are NOT trying to get caught as the current psycho babblers say. They just enjoy what they do.
When we realize this as a fact and that these people are not inhumane but, in fact, are very human will it make it easier to deal with them? I don't know. I do know that dealing with reality is usually better than believing in something just because we want to believe in it.
This is not a comparison of the bad guys and golfers but is used to show that people do what they like to do. It is clear and obvious that no completely normal, reasonable and logical person would dress up in funny looking clothes, have a big bag of sticks, hit a tiny ball hundreds of yards to try to get it into a little hole and drive around in an unstable cart and call it exercise while drinking high calorie beer. Most of the people doing this are not really crazy, they are just doing something that for some inexplicable reason they like to do.
An ethical person tries to change the world to the way it should be but until that goal is achieved an intelligent person deals with the world the way it really is.
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