Insect is the word come to mind at times. Or maybe, a better word is virus.
To think how human beings have infested the planet, the way
we grow in number, spread, destroy natural environment to create an unsustainable
and artificial habitat and the way we are pushing the planet towards ultimate
destruction, without having any control on it - mankind seems to be the disease
that ails planet earth.
Was it supposed to be like this?
Aren't we all good people? Nice, kind at heart? Don't we all crave for heroic
deeds, to save the worlds? Don't we love the movies where protagonists behave
selflessly, sacrificing their own interest for the greater good? Do not we create beneficial laws, treaties and conventions to prevent the evil from taking over?
Why, why is it then that the
combined effect of existence of human kind is so putrid, so disastrous for the
whole world? Why does it seem that the entire race is unable to prevent the earth from falling into an irreversible disaster?
Is it that all the good people
are manipulated by some evil people? Does that argument stand after decades of
knowing what is happening and in which direction we are headed?
Are we even aware of the evil
that we constitute collectively, as a species? Are we comfortable with that?
And, being lawyers, can we answer what kind of laws could make a difference? Does this have anything to do with the laws or is there something more fundamental about this that laws can not reach?
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