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What makes people think they're better then others? What makes someone lower, what makes a person feel they have something on someone else? Is it physical strength? Is it intellect? Is it merely a matter of ideas?

Does anything give a person the right to talk down to someone? Because I'm stronger than most people should I inflict myself on others because I can? What stops me fromoing so? A moral centre, patience, undertanding? Experience? What makes me good enough to write this about someone else? How can I look down on someone who looks down on others? Shouldn't I be looking up?

What makes the prime ministers and presidents and kings and queens taller than other men and women? Are we not all men and women, human beings, do we not all serve the same purpose? Can a man work in both an office and out in the fields? Do women have anymore right to hit a man than a man a woman if man cheats, the woman cheats and the only difference is that women are never openly given the option to fight back? Or is it right because a man may hit a woman and break her jaw but a woman merely inflict a bruise? How is violence justified?

How is it that a boy beats on another boy but when the beaten returns to school with a knife and stabs his attacker the beaten is the one at fault and the attack made into the victim? How is it that children are beaten and broken by other children? What adult in any chair has the right to sit and watch and do nothing? Violence does not always breed violence. Why in fact do I look upon suicides and suicidals with such gross disdain when in fact not 5 years ago I sat a knife upon my arm and asked myself if living is so great? Do I acknowledge suicides who take their lives because of bullying? I don't think I do. I was bullied for 10 years, that's half my life and I sit and write this diatribe as if it had never happened. Do I support children who kill their oppressors? Certainly not, death is only a release. A boy should fight back, injur but not kill, bones will heal but life cannot be rekindled.

Is it not sad that everyday millions of copies of magazines are published that bring down the ego of millions of girls? Does no one care about them? Does no one care that hundreds of girls hate themselves because other girls look better than they do? Has no mother of father ever told their daughters how much they loved them? How beautiful they were? How perfect they are? Does it disturb me that the parents are at fault? That the magazines play a part in annual suicide rates? That peer pressure is the leading cause in infant suicide?

Yes.

Inflection is a dangerous thing, it breeds distrust and hate. I hate all people as much as I care for them. Hypocracy is an out of date word, as long as the ends justify the means and the majority is appeased then what does it matter if a few lives are extinguished. That is the sad realization I'm trying to get used to. I understand sacrifice, others must simply understand that there is such a thing as acceptable evil.

What I wouldn't give, for a return to good and evil.