What's wrong with people?

I have a friend from Germany that lives in Kuala Lumpur, waiting to hear back from him that he was not on that flight.  None of those people deserved to die. What an effed-up thing to do...it's bad enough there's another land grab, but to deliberately shoot down a passenger flight, it's just evil.  And both sides deny being responsible...just man up and take responsibility.  Live with the consequences.

Just so much intolerance and finding reasons to kill each other (for what really? is it worth it? How can you say it is?  It never ends, just more reasons to kill, to create a world of us vs. them where one side needs to be right at all costs and the other needs to be destroyed.  Vengeance begets vengeance until there's no one left to kill or until someone steps up and says, "Enough!" (We need more of that.) What is really gained in the end?  A temporary peace, when your "enemy" is eliminated, until you find the next one because you never feel secure in the world?  There will always be someone to hate and therefore someone you need to destroy.  When what you have is never enough, you will always need an enemy, someone to blame for what you lack.  Entitlement is a lie.  You will never be at peace.)

I know it's more complicated than what I make it out to be, but...you know, we're so insecure in what we believe that we force those beliefs on others thinking if we can do that, we can prove to ourselves and everyone else that we are right.  Eliminate any dissenting voices.  Become unassailable.

Peace is living with the uncertainty, that someone else might also be right. That perhaps there is no absolute truth, that everything is in flux.  That beliefs can change, and that might be a good thing.