The Importance Of Faith In Humanity

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To have faith in humanity is to have faith in a parachute opening one hundred percent of the time, it’s impossible. No one group of people can be blamed for this though, throughout history mass killings have been committed by people on almost every continent over land, money, women, resources, crops, and of course religion. Yet to this day it continues, but over things like oil or communism vs capitalism. Some say they must have faith in humanity for us to continue the struggle for freedom and peace, to help those in need, to live with compassion and empathy, and to band together during times of struggle to survive and outlast the never ending wave of torment by the world. My faith in humanity has been lost in the past years due to the events happening today and learning about events that have happened less than one hundred years ago. The Holocaust, committed by the German Military during World War Two and the millions of lives lost due to the ignorance and propaganda of the german people unknowingly giving support to the biggest mass killing of a group of people in recent history. Only after realizing the amount of damage it caused the …show more content…

Yet for me I cannot believe that there is good in everyone, there has been too many example in all of history of that just not being true. The only thing to truly restore my faith in humanity would be to give up all social classes, to make everyone equal. For this though it would mean an absolute loss to free speech, free thought, and many one thing that separates you from anyone else and in doing so would strip the humanity out of humanity. So no I do not believe as a species we should continue to have faith in humanity. To fight for ourselves is the only options we have, because you never know what anyone has planned for you, and to have faith in that is a unwise thing to

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