Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What is more immoral than war?
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence. Art and literature are antidotes to that.
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
We are a plague on the Earth.