Why don't you just do as I say? [View all]
Why is it you don't think like I do?
Why won't you believe what I beleive?
I don't like something, therefore you shouldn't either.
My way is better, and you should do it my way.
If you only drove the way I do, we would all be safer.
The way I think is superior, and if you don't think like I do, you are inferior.
If you don't think/act/believe the way I want, I will make your life difficult/hard/expensive/end.
What is it about humans that we all tend to ask and answer the above questions? From Boku Haram to ISIS to the Westboro Baptist Church to Texas School board members to DU'ers themselves, humans have this overwhelming need to get others to conform to the way they think under penalty of some sort, often the sword, as history demonstrates time and again.
What the hell is so difficult for humanity to just leave others be? Why is it so damned hard for people to understand that opinions vary and there is nothing we can do about it?
I know the answer, after all. Because different opinions are scary or troublesome. If someone thinks differently than us it means we might not be right. It indicates an alternative we might find troublesome or difficult to grasp.
As a person who likes to think of himself as a modern, thinking human, there are most definitely opinions that I find detestable and not compatable with modern society (Extremism in any guise) and as such, we would be better off if they were wiped out. But what is it about the likes of some that feel convinced to the point of murder that their way is right and others will suffer if they don't acquiesce?
Humans.
A never ending source of curiosity.
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