As a race we have done so much: we have traveled to the moon and are making plans to go to Mars someday. There are even tourist flghts into outer space. We have cured many deseases, improved the quality of our food supply, and are learning how to take better care of our environment. We have done all these things and others besides, but in all the centuries the human race has been in existence we have never learned how to settle our differences without hurting and/or killing each other.

We still wage war on each other. Kids kill each other over such earth shattering differences as shoe brands and clothing styles and boy/girl friends. We are still, in this the twenty first century, still hung up on such things as religious differences, skin colour, place of origin, and sexual preference. Why is that? Why is it so important that I am right and you are wrong? Of course there must be rules for how we act and how we treat each other and what we do; but how is it that after all these years we have not left violence behind?