The human species is by far morally inferior to tigers, lions, and other animals. We organize on an industrial scale to kill each other over straws with weapons daily made more deadly. No other animal kills so indiscriminately and pointlessly. The scourge of war has earmarked the human species since the beginning of recorded time. It is born of gratifying universal juvenile hormonal cravings for power and domination as artificial conveyers of self-esteem in philosophically empty souls. Einstein and Freud, among others, were clueless about how to prevent chronic, unremitting war, which legalizes first-degree murder.
Jesus tried with his Sermon on the Mount of Beatitudes, a hill in northern Israel overlooking the Sea of Galilee. But all his memorable pleadings to act and speak according to the better angels of our nature changed nothing. Indeed, the Sermon was delivered on what has become the most blood-stained turf in the history of the world. Jesus’ words have been honored in the breach rather than in the observance. Among other things, think of the bloody Crusades and Inquisition. All religions are equally culpable. The entire species is culpable.
The current war between Israel and Palestinians will change nothing. It joins the wars in Ukraine, Burma, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, ad infinitum. Peace is a euphemism for intermission before the next war.
And human have the audacity to boast that we are the superior species! Is there any bigger delusion?