Peace

[Azrael]

I feel peace is an unattainable goal. Religious dogma aside, humanity as a whole falls into one of two catergories. You have "good" and "evil"(for lack of better terms). Now these words are subjective as far as making a text-book definition of them. But the very idea of their respective meanings can generally be agreed on by most people.

Good-being a person who respects his fellow man, and generally works to eitheir make the world a better place, or simply minds their own, and doesn't cause undo suffering towards his fellow man.

Evil-being a person who has no disregard for his fellow man, and sees man as an expendable commodity ripe for expoitation, or a person who does cause undue suffering towards his fellow man.

No matter what you believe, I feel that every person on this Earth falls into one of those two categories. Do you do charity work down at the Children's Hospital, or would you like to blow up the Charity Hospital to see all of the bloody carnage? If this question is taken seriuosly, you will fall on one side of the fence or the other. There will be no middle-ground, as even simply ignoring the Children's Hospital, you are on the "Good" side, as you are not causing suffering. The sad reality is, the world is full of people who would very much blow up the Hospital, for many reasons. It could be done to make a Political and or religious statement, it could be done to send a message, or it could be as simple as one man getting his jollies from it. Death is the ultimate attention grabber, people drop the apathy when lives are lost. It unites and or divides, depending on what your ultimate goal is. That is the whole idea behind "Terrorism" Death creates fear. Fear creates submission. Submission creates extermination. You will always have people working to bring about the extermination, no matter what their reasoning may be.

That is why I define peace as nothing more than a noble idea. It is something definately worth striving for, but is an unnattainable goal. The world is a swirling mass of chaos, and for the "good" to exist, there must be an "evil" lurking around the corner to counter-act it. Without the war-mongers to counter-act the peace keepers, the entire balance of the world is lost. Creating one thing ultimately requires the destruction of another.