Tuesday, 6 February 2007

Thinking about Humans

I've been reading a book about the Second World War recently (I do read lighter books, really!) and it makes me wonder - how do we stop ourselves from turning into the worst kind of "animal" (or more accurately, the worst kind of human) when things turn bad?

How do we stop ourselves doing things like what people in Rwanda did to each other during the genocide?

How do we stop ourselves from endangering others so that we can be "safe"?