In a Perfect World ...

 In a Perfect World ...

In a perfect world, things would not be perfect, but things would be much better.

For starters, no one would go hungry. No humans, anyway, would suffer from the lack of food and nutrition. I don't know about all the domestic pets and beasts around, because as far as I am concerned animals exist first to help us from not starving, and then maybe for those who are blessed and privileged people can derive utility and pleasure from them. But I don't like when animals are getting better care and food than humans. Doesn't sit right, doesn't make sense to me.

Especially minors. Kids deserve food, there should be no empty stomachs. I don't care if its Greenland, Namibia, Bangladesh, or the Marshall Islands. Children should not suffer hunger.

In the last thousand years the human race has not done a very good job of staving off hunger for its people, yet we have the means to produce food. Where we have done perhaps the worst job is in the dissemination of food. Places and regions have had their droughts and blights while neighbors are not able to help, because of selfishness, or a myriad of other reasons, like poor leadership that allows its people to die while those in power hold on to their own control, like the modern day North Korea or Somalia or a dozen or more other African nations. Syria has seen the same issues because of war recently, as well as Yemen.

War.

Feast or famine, war is another area where there would be a lot less of it in a perfect world.

Violence in general would be, should be, so much less.

Why are so many people getting killed in Chicago this year? It's 2016. The current president hails from Chicago. I call that a mini-war.

Some talk about a war on poverty, a war on drugs. I think there ought to be a war on war, starting with stopping the motivations that make people want to kill other people.

Killing is bad, and in a perfect world it would be reduced, from the big wars down to the smallest potentially deadly conflicts, like gang violence. Or ethnic groups being systematically targeted and oppressed, or gassed, or buried in mass graves, or suppressed in their languages or movements.

What about the Kurds? In a perfect world, we wouldn't necessarily have a Kurdistan, but Kurds would peacefully cohabitate in their homelands, and we would not have to worry about them getting massacred, be they Sunni or Shia or Yazidi or Shabak.

Religions and languages should not be reasons to kill or unfairly discriminate.

And yet, we do.

Do we blame religion? Superstition? Ideologies? Governments?

I blame: us. People.

In a perfect world, we would be people, human, and we would protect and sustain life. We would not use every system and organization to take advantage and exploit people. Or exploit the weakness of others. We would give and protect.

We would be kinder, more generous, and abhor those that prey on the weak.

It all starts with each waking decision we make.