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Moving beyond poverty, human cruelty manifests itself in schools, neighborhoods, and households, escaping unnoticed by our placated minds. That boy that sits alone at lunch, having too many times overheard the laughs and cruel words spoken of his ratty clothes, realizes those commercial advertisements ingrained into the public are geared towards another crowd and is thus disowned by the society into which he was born. Do we realize what we do to him?
I was so affected by the words of my father that I've taught myself to recognize human cruelty in various forms. It is not always as obvious as the act of laughing at a cripple, but when observed it provokes within me a deep guilt, a reminder of my human potential to do the same.
Humanity has the power to embrace and naturalize empathy, but by denying its potential for cruelty it has severed itself from the struggle. Regardless of this detachment, our potential for compassion is fixed and laced throughout the very cells of our bodies. So long as we may experience guilt, the one emotion strong enough to give birth to humility, we may resume our advancement toward understanding and empathy. Only when we succeed in humbling ourselves will the truly detrimental state of man become apparent. Only when we ache with remorse for our failures may we cultivate a pure compassion.
I was so affected by the words of my father that I've taught myself to recognize human cruelty in various forms. It is not always as obvious as the act of laughing at a cripple, but when observed it provokes within me a deep guilt, a reminder of my human potential to do the same.
Humanity has the power to embrace and naturalize empathy, but by denying its potential for cruelty it has severed itself from the struggle. Regardless of this detachment, our potential for compassion is fixed and laced throughout the very cells of our bodies. So long as we may experience guilt, the one emotion strong enough to give birth to humility, we may resume our advancement toward understanding and empathy. Only when we succeed in humbling ourselves will the truly detrimental state of man become apparent. Only when we ache with remorse for our failures may we cultivate a pure compassion.