Not On Our Watch: Reflective Blog Statement #1

After talking to Jaclyn in our divided groups, we both realized that there is something seriously missing from this situation. Genocide has been happening for such a long time, indeed before our recorded incidents of genocide. It is still happening right now. How do we stop it? "Oh, we should be doing the same thing as we have before. They have worked in the past, right?" Yes, they have worked in the past. But how many years did it take until another genocide happened? It doesn't matter that they go by different names and are in different places; genocide is genocide. There's no point in trying to stop a specific genocide when another one comes up not too long afterwards. We have to stop genocide from happening at all. The thing is, we love fear and hate too much; people claim it to be human instinct, and we can't get rid of it. If that's the case, too bad. Genocide will never stop happening. If that's the attitude we want, so be it. We can have it forever. It's not until everyone starts loving love that we will have peace.