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Born to hate

In a modern world almost obsessed with politically correct actions,  let’s try for a moment to step back and think about ourselves.

Many scientists say that the human being is different from all other animals because of two characteristics: the ability to speak and the fact that we have a memory. Besides these two wonderful feats, the human being can be compared on all natural levels with, let’s say, a monkey.

When we are born, we only have the basic needs, the needs of every other living being. We start discriminating from the first moment we want our mother and not any other woman. Later on we can’t stand the presence of somebody who maybe doesn’t smell the right way or whose skin colour scares us. Reasons are galore and an innocent child knows perfectly that he is allowed not to like someone because…, well, he just doesn’t like the person.

Everyday discrimination

Each and everyone of us is discriminating at a certain point in his life. We are discriminating when we go to the park as kids and play only with one group of kids we prefer. We discriminate when we stay away from potential partners that are maybe in our opinion too fat, too slim, too ugly and so on. Every day of our life is a string of choices based on discrimination, because discrimination is natural, it is a part of our personality as humans.

Integration can’t be forced, it can’t be done without considering human nature. If we start discriminating since our first day of life, why are we under the impression that any law would be able to change that? If we want to integrate, it can’t be accomplished by means of laws or by forcing people to accept other people. Our feelings depend on many other things than laws, and this is why life is so full of surprises.

Winners and losers

In the natural world, there are every day winners and losers. In order for integration to work, we have to accept that we will not be able to integrate everybody. We have to understand that, yes, there will always be prejudice and hate, because it is the right of every human being to have prejudices and hate. Of course, when these sentiments turn violent, there are laws to deal with this. But no human being should ever be convicted for an attitude, even if the attitude is one of intolerance.

Being intolerant about the things you don’t like is one of the most important rights of every human being. So let’s forget all about the gay little speeches that say that everybody is the same. We are not the same, we are different starting from day one. Life is all about winners and losers. And, as the Abba song goes, the winner takes it all.

Posted in | 08.07.2009

By: Petre Fluerasu