Humanitarian Issues

The one and sometimes only common ground that all living things share, is the world with which we live in. This is the only hope for universal unity, to wage peace among all human beings alike. A growing portion of the population is seeking guidance in evil, an evil that thrives on secular domination through the dehumanization and the ostracizing of good-willed people. The past lends itself as evidence that eyes stand idly by watching as the history of evil repeats itself. It has been a continual competition of inhumanity at its best, the art of redefining the limits of evil. Acts such as the My Lai Massacre, the Holocaust, the Armenian and Rwandan genocide, and even the Columbine shooting have been events perpetuated by people who do not recognize morality. "To forget is to kill them again."(Elie Wiesel) The words of a Holocaust survivor and a Noble Peace Prize Winner are significantly remarkable because they simply explain how ignorance enables repetition. Unfortunately, ignorance hasn't failed us yet.

Since Rwanda, the worlds worst humanitarian calamity is now unraveling in Darfur, where Jangaweed are killing thousands to hundreds of thousands of people with the support of the Islamic government of Sudan. No one is getting involved enough as to stop the genocide in Darfur and prevent the imminent death of thousands more. The reason for our negligence can be found in the rapid increase of the technological era. A poem called Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind by E.E. Cummings is a perfect explanation of this possible cause. "Progress is a comfortable disease."(Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind). As a world, we have preoccupied ourselves with how much progress we are making at the expense of the downfalls of our society. Governments focus more on their progress and success in terms of their own country, rather than getting involved with other problems that will only cost them time and money. "A world of made is not a world of