Violence and hate are a growing trend. People and groups engaged in hate targeting has become increasingly common because we haven't developed mechanisms to deal with it as everything is politicized. People bent on violence are hard to reason with and there seems to be some support among different peoples as to the acceptance of violence.
Targeting children, targeting people in our community, and general dishonest mayhem have become part of us and in many cases acceptable (Depending on who the targets are.). The development of solutions is slow and when good solutions seem to be forming there is lack of desire to act because of social, political, and other pressures.
It creates scenarios where such behaviors are repeated over and over because of failed accountability and no theoretical methods of intercession. We have lost our sense of community and the willingness to stand for basic values. The way and the will should come together.
Rules apply differently to different peoples. There is no reason for children to get hurt and anything that encourages or causes that should be changed. The protection of children is fundamental to our lives and to our society. Without that...we will eventually lose our society (eaten from the inside).
I've seen children be targeted, lied to, and families get on the hate target list. The group responsible feels no remorse, continues to spread false information, and is unable to respect the values of people in their community that they have been told "they can't like". It only takes one hate supporter to change the scenario.
Let us stop pretending that we have all of the answers. Doing more than politically arguing and looking in the other direction is necessary for resolution. It makes no difference what the children's parents say, what I say, what anyone says because we are missing the moral conscious and fortitude to chart a new course. I don't believe we can any longer tolerate hate.
The question is, "What do we do now?"
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