remind me again-whats humane?

I would lie if I said I haven’t spent at least few minutes looking at pictures of Iraq or Kuwait or Rwanda in a mere calculative sense. Like I was upgrading my database on the Horrors of Humanity.These moments would usually transform into feeling of contempt and disgust eventually.But it’s those brief pauses in my emotions that got me thinking today!!

Most of our thoughts after registering such atrocities would be on the lines of WHY!!Why did that happen?Why did we inflict such pain and misery upon our brothers??Why didn’t anyone take a stand for them??Then we try to gather the reasons that made few individuals choose such extreme acts as a favorable means for their end.
Power, Money, Revenge

All these arguments emerge from a mind which is capable of coherent thinking in the full awareness of the traditionally defined sense of Right and Wrong. We base our premise conforming to societies Rights and the taboos defined. Most of these qualities expected from us are Utopian. It’s like the unicorn we would want to find!!What if for a second we forgot that we need to conform to this set of virtues or taboos.

What if we begin by being part of society where the rules are yet to be defined, the players are yet to role their dice, the horrors are yet to be witnessed.Will our stomachs be still filled with such nausea and revolt towards the pictures I mentioned??

It would be hard to discredit this scenario, right after I personally experienced few moments of numbness while reacting to the visuals of atrocities. If such a premise is placed and the human nature explored we might reach a conclusion which we have feared for long. It wouldn’t be hard to presume that Humans have an innate thirst for maliciousness. It would quite possible that we have never totally abandoned our predator instincts. May be we were meant to be hunters all along. That would establish that these atrocities are not abnormalities in behavior but the resurfacing of our true nature. And those entire Why’s which we previously couldn’t answer would instantly disappear. We wouldn’t have to build heavy financial and economical theories to accept the human factor. We wouldn’t have to build a complex cause-effect relationship to explain these deviations. Once we establish the premise of our lack of “humanity”, the deviations would cease to exist. Isn’t that how any theory is supposed to be? Corroborated by facts and devoid of abnormalities, the theory would be totally justifiable.

All along, we were worried that how humans can commit such acts??
If we just recognize the presence of the predator instincts that are a part of our evolution, we would have to think very differently. May be this is why the ideal human behavior has just been the fascination of all and never a reality. May be we were never meant to be so caring and HUMAN.May be that is why it’s difficult to be that person and easy to comment from the sidewalk. May be all our hue and cry over these atrocities is prompted by our desire to conform to that ideal Human behavior. May be the leash of ideals is worn out and all that ugliness of human nature is finally surfacing.

If my maybes are true, I really don’t like it.I realy wouldn’t want to be human.

Then again may be I am afraid of being labeled evil and hence unconsciously train my houghts to think this way!!

PROLOGUE
We can always try :D