#we’re like kids in a sandbox except we’re tossing all the sand out and soon we’ll have nothing left to play with

[jinx-rants]

The trouble with humans is that over our history our capacity for empathy didn’t evolve at the same pace as our capacity to do harm.

Doing harm is easy. Drop a bomb, kill a couple hundred thousand people.

Grieve and mourn and have empathy for those people and their families and a traumatized country? Really really hard. Maybe even impossible. Actually having empathy for each human murdered would crush any individual person.

Empathy is a skill that we have to learn and stretch and grow just like any other, and instead we learn how to kill each other and the planet.