Humanity 2.0

Often times I ponder about random things during my free time, like before I sleep or when Im just plain tired. One of things I ponder most about is humanity within our society. Its strange how during our modern age of law and order, inhumane acts can still occur. I have always felt that regardless of millions of years of evolution, humans can never ever drop the animalistic instincts which our early ancestors had. Regardless of the existence of courtesy and ethics, some of us still have the drive in us to do cruel and barbaric things. I believe that it is when a person feels extreme anger is when he shows the most animalistic side of himself. Some of us may be better than others at controlling it, but it is truly unfortunate that not all of us are able to do so.

Well one case which I can think of is the kids in my previous dorm neighborhood. They had always been harassing the dogs in my area by throwing stones at them and hitting them with sticks. The dogs in my neighborhood were never aggressive at first but after the attacks and abuse they became extremely aggressive. You may say those kids are just "kids", but I have also overheard the adults encouraging the kids to get rid of the "pests". The dogs had always meant no harm and they did not bother anyone to begin with. But after they became aggressive, it had actually became a problem because the dogs would bark and chase down everyone and anyone. So one day while hanging my clothes in the porch I noticed one of the dogs which hang in my area was eating some stuff from a plastic bag. When I took a closer look I noticed it was a bag of chicken bones filled with a shitload of rat poison. Someone had actually put some thought into it and had really wanted them dead.

What was sad was actually the very people who tried to kill them off were very ones who made them aggressive to begin with. Was it necessary? Just because some kids didn't have anything to do, they had to torment these harmless creatures. They had caused these creatures to be protective and now tried to kill them. I wouldn't use the Malaysian term of calling them "uneducated", I would rather say they lack humanity. There are people out there who abuse animals and even worse, other people. What is it that is in a human mind that can cause them to be so screwed up? What sort of upbringing would result in this kind of behavior? Honestly, I don't really know. For all you know, it may actually be a natural behavior in us to behave this way. Notice how humans have to always repress and tolerate certain behaviors? Why isn't it that these behaviors just simply don't exist within us? Something to ponder about.