Inhumanity

I know that not many people really read the blog posts that I write, yet it's always been good way of collecting thoughts when they tend to be so scattered. Thats what brought me to write about the topic I am right now. Growing up, I was never a big reader of books and found most of them to be boring and insignificant. How can I get into something that is fictitious and in the end, will be thought of as simply words on paper. Yet as I've grown, I have found a great love for non-fictional autobiographical pieces of literature that illustrate the intricacies of an individuals life. Most recently I finished the story of Gary Ridgeway, the Green River Killer, as well as started the story of a concentration camp victim. Both books address the various inhumanities of mankind from different perspectives. One person issuing what he believes to be sweet justice, while the other being subjected to incomprehensible punishment. It made me think, what causes anyone to lose total sight of the things they do?

For Gary, a man who killed well over 40 prostitutes over the span of years, he subjected his victims to torture and death because he saw these mostly young girls as nothing. Yet when further evaluated, in all reality, Gary was a victim of his unwillingness to accept his view by others as weak and insignificant. Instead he received a sick gratification from imposing his will upon these lost women who simply needed a hand in life to overcome the lifestyle that most of them despised.

The concentration camp guards inflicted pain because they found those who were "inferior" as a scapegoat for the countries inability to overcome financial ruin. Certainly there is more to the topic then that, but when you have been through so much turmoil and hardship, why not take the easy route and blame someone else?

This topic is so complex and difficult to fully understand why inhumane things happen to those who don't deserve the outcome. No one deserves such things. Maybe one day I'll understand the reasons behind the lose of perspective by such people or groups of people. Until then, I'll keep watching the many stories that happen every day that involve those who impose their power in inhumane ways.