I cannot offer reports of a better humanity. History in my world is shaped by hatred and bloodshed. Though surely we could exist in harmony with one another, fighting breaks out time and time again. And though I preach of peace and desire nothing more, time and time again I have been put in a position where I decided that picking up arms and defending my values was my only authentic path forward.
Conflict is a complicated thing and I cannot claim to know all the answers for how to end it.
But what I do know is that I am alive. Every day, children are born into this world of bloodied hands and frenzied screams. We're alive.
And there is no future for those we give up on, no future for us if we just decide to condemn ourselves for the mere fact of our existence.
[ Her own existence could easily be considered a mistake, but what would be gained through her death? It would not fix the mistake that had already been made, it would just be death. Death is death is death, and there is nothing won from it. ]
I do not know the future. Maybe what you are foreseeing will come to pass. But I do know I'd regret it forever if we squashed the potential of a life based around an abstract fear.
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Conflict is a complicated thing and I cannot claim to know all the answers for how to end it.
But what I do know is that I am alive. Every day, children are born into this world of bloodied hands and frenzied screams. We're alive.
And there is no future for those we give up on, no future for us if we just decide to condemn ourselves for the mere fact of our existence.
[ Her own existence could easily be considered a mistake, but what would be gained through her death? It would not fix the mistake that had already been made, it would just be death. Death is death is death, and there is nothing won from it. ]
I do not know the future. Maybe what you are foreseeing will come to pass. But I do know I'd regret it forever if we squashed the potential of a life based around an abstract fear.