Violence resides in all of us. We all carry a dark side. When we as a
nation engage in war, it is all of us that are responsible, not just the
chosen few. When children are massacred in school, or people killed in
theaters, or shot in malls, it is all of us that are responsible for
insane gun laws. Violent movies, violent songs, violent video games, all
desensitizing us to violent death. We reap what we sow. With each
death, humanity becomes less than what it could have been. When we take
an eye for an eye, we become no better than our enemy. We move away from
the common good, toward the common bad. And before long, we accept the
common bad as okay, or something we can settle for. This is the law of
diminishing humanity. We all take part in it. We are all responsible for
it. We sit back and watch.
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