Reflection 16

This was the hardest response I had to deal with, just because the graphic level of what actually happen, was too grooms for me to handle. I don’t understand the human mind, and how some can be full of love and kindness, and other full hatred and murder. The biggest Genocide and ethnic cleansing we’ve encountered and known about world wide would be the holocaust. But that wasn’t the only one worth talking about, during our history years I’ve never seen anything so gruesome, or rather never chose to see something as gruesome as the Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur genocide and ethnic cleansing. In Bosnia many women have been raped, men and young boys have been beaten and used for hard labor, and worst killed because they do not fit the stereotype of a pure ethnic group. Hearing this I was astonished and appalled how someone could, anyone want to be apart of something that can destroy humans because they don’t fit into what you believe to be the perfect ethnic group. It tares me open; I can’t seem to find anyone who even closely resembles perfection. Never mind wipe out millions of people, because they don’t hold up to your standards. Who are you to decide who lives, and who dies? And who are you to decide, what type of characteristics and physical traits one must have so that they can survive. As well as Dafur, why would you capture blacks from villages just to massacre them? These things aren’t normal, and I thought that after what happened to the Jews almost wiping out a whole religion, that no one would ever think about doing such G-d awful things because we learn from our history, so our history won’t become our future. Though apparently this isn’t true, I’ve learned that history is known to repeat itself if it’s in the hands of wrong doers. I never really understood why people do the things they do, especially when it’s something as serious as this. Though I have learned that just because we don’t know it happens, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Many things have been kept hidden for obvious reasons, but mainly because if anyone really does know what goes on 100% of the time, then no one would be safe, and everyone would run around paranoid. At a sense ignorance is bliss, because what you don’t know won’t hurt you, and at the same time, you already have you own stuff to deal with.