This is very long, but I don't know how to make it shorter...
The major difference between those who have and those who have not is not material possessions. It is not education, or intelligence, or work ethic. It is far more simple and far more complex than that
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In the beginning the world was built indifferent to all species making free will and choice useful. This was so no one, not even God, had the power to decide who ate and who starved, who lived and who died and so on.
Man ruined this because of his arrogance and idea that because he could 'think' he was God's favorite and therefore all was created for 'him'. Therefore the same rules that applied to all of God's other creations certainly did not apply to him. God could not just allow humans to starve and die indifferently as he does the rabbit or the deer. Surely, being his favorite and greatest creation, they were special and deserved more opportunity.
So the only law, indifference, became through man a million laws all designed to tilt the scales toward the human. This gave man or the men making these new laws the power to decide who ate and who starved, who lived and who died and so on. So they created many labels to distinguish the human as many different things. The noble man, the rich man, the religious man, the black man, the white man, the american, the european, the terrorist, the enemy, the ally, the criminal and on and on. Each one deserving their own luxuries or their own hardships.
This is where we have been for thousands of years. Still following our own silly laws and labels.
How insane we are to think that we as humans can run the world better than God. When to start even God realized this was far to great a task for him to take on. Indifference, though cruel at times, was all that could control the fire that is life. That is why God chose this method.
We are playing with that same fire right now, everyday, and it's only a matter of time before we all get burned.
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My question remains, though. What can we do? Regardless of the causes, what can we do to ensure equal choice for all living creatures? I fear that it is already too late, and only a disaster of epic proportions, the apocalypse, or an act of God will change things. Maybe that's why I can't get enough of post-apocalyptic literature...
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Nothing will ensure 'equal choice' for all living creatures. There are so many organizations today working towards this goal and they will never, even if time were infinite, achieve this.
So to start give up this idea. Then accept the indifference of life. Then use unabashedly your free will.
The idea of 'equality' is an anchor on all constructive thought. If you as a person cannot see yourself fitting into the parameters offered to you decline the offer and seek another or create your own. This is free will.
It is not the job of one person, or even many, to 'fix' the lives of others. This idea is what got us into this mess in the first place. Righteousness is quite dangerous.
Ghandi once said, 'we must be the change we want to see in the world'. If we all live the same but preach change this is hypocricy and not helpful to anyone.
To answer your question, "What can we do?". The answer is different for everyone, because we all have our own individual abilites. A small thing everyone could do to move forward though are these simple things: Accept that you are here now. Accept that you are no more important than a blade of grass or a grain of sand. Accept that life is indifferent. Accept that you will die. Once you do these things you will be able to see much clearer and be able to contribute better to the world in any way you choose.
Mortality is a strong motivator which is why it is suppressed with the idea of an afterlife. If we knew this life is all we have I'm sure people would be less tolerant of injustice and more inclined to speak up and work together towards a common goal.
In my own opinion diversity is what we should be working towards not equality. Diversity allows many people to be many different things. I've yet to meet one person who has the same ideas and ideals as everyone else in the world or even in their own country.
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We have diversity. Injustice creates diversity. There's loads of diversity. The problem then, is not equality, or diversity, but, I argue, a kind of free diversity. The option to exercise your free will to be who, what and where you want to be. I'm not sure if I'm phrasing this right, but I'm just trying to convey the feeling behind the very long original post. When you hold a child in your arms, and realize how much you have and how much they don't, how can you sit there and just worry about yourself? I can't. I can't just worry about myself. I've been blessed a million times over already. So I have to try and share that blessing. There are too many people who say "That's the way it is, that's the way it's always been." It's not the way it's always been, it's not the way it has to be, it can't stay this way, or soon enough we'll all be dead.
I still think the only thing that will change things is a disaster of epic proportions that kills off the majority of the world's human population. We've broken the rules for too long...it can't last forever.
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It is easier to say that than to do things like quit your job and become a full time advocate of equality. If these things really bother you so much it is not out of your ability to try this road for a predetermined amount of time.
It amazes me at times how quickly our great species is willing to roll over and die rather than live uncomfortably.
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