Would it be so hard to see difference?

Would it be so hard to see difference?

 

In what manner historically have we raised our young? To what school of learning do we aspire to, to teach our children? Do we not teach them sharing? Do we not teach them not to fight? Do we not teach them manners, permissions, and judgments all to respect each other? Is this not a value of learning in each religion, each dogma, each government, each society? Do we not bring together our children to learn with each other and thus about each other?

 

Do we not go to a market each to his own preference, for supplies for our needs of food and clothing; is that not a shared human thing, do we not seek from each other?

 

I look in my house, here where I live, I see imports from China, Russia, Pakistan, India, I see food from Brazil, fruit from Honduras, and Mexico, I write on product that has parts made in America to far flung reaches of the Pacific, tied together with items and technology from the depths of Europe, based in part from knowledge gleamed from every civilization of our time.

 

I step out my door, there again do I see the same. 

 

I see my neighbors, I see the road, the store, the clerk, the smith of another human doing the same.

 

Were it only that the world could see what I see: Humanity living with difference.

 

With what justification are you willing to walk to your neighbor and extinguish that life? What difference is so vast that you would choose to call upon them their demise, and then send your children to school to learn from one another?

 

To what rational thought are you willing to spend trillions of dollars in the materials of death? What is so different about our neighbors in far off lands, that you would spend trillions of dollars to exterminate them, and yet it is their cousins, their brothers and sisters, their sons and daughters who may very well attend the same school as your child, learning to overcome their differences and to be friends?

 

Would our children not be better served with that trillions of dollars spent instead on teaching our children to better their future, giving them the tools to reach for and achieve peace?

Chas