Monday, November 23, 2009

Do You Want to Fight? Grow up!

In the primeval times, man benefited from his superior intelligence and developed first weapons. He used them solely for defensive and hunting purposes. I don't know who came up with the idea to turn defensive and hunting knife against your neighboor.
But the fact is, since the times people have been fighting, there are wars and thus it's opposite, peace.

Weapons
Humans are weak, they have no natural tools to inflict severe damage on others. So we use unnatural tools to "balance" this disadvantage. Great deal of human intellect went into research of how to kill other beings, animals or humans. If we examine closely the history of ancient cultures, we can see that they fought often, therefore quality of weapons could decide the whole fight.

Warfare
When you declared a war, you wanted to gain something from it. Resources, territory, taxes, glory, revenge... whatever you fancy. The point is that the iniciator of the conflict - a king, a politician, had to come up with a legitimate reason for the conclift, because men die in wars. Fathers, sons, husbands, cousins, brothers - all of them die in any war.

Death
Well, don't give me wrong, I don't object death - everyone of us must die one day. What I object is premature death. You know, each of us has been given a certain period of time to live, don't mind whether it was by chance or God's will. There is absolutely no reason why we should fight, why we should cut our liver shorter, why we should evoke suffering, misery and personal tragedies.

Peace
When there is peace, civilization prosper. Boys grow up into young men, girls grow up into young women, everyone makes his full contribution, no matter how small it might be. Phenomenon called peace assures that we can live more like humans using our intelligence and less like animals using brutal force and killing to survive.

Development
Even today, in the 21st century, violence is used to resolve problems. Anyone with intellectual capacity higher than a washing machine must see it is wrong. I do not want to belong to society which pretends intelligence and in fact, it composes of modern animals.

Do you?