It's frustrating to see my dear fellow humans fall into the same ideological traps that have been so common in history.

Nationalism

Racism

Sexism

Xenophobia

Anti-Semitism

Etc.

(To be fair, I see much more examples of these on X than on Nostr at the moment.)

Can we all agree that there are both wonderful people and horrible people in every race, religion, nation, gender, and creed?

Can we agree that we all have the capacity for good and evil? That there is a dark and a light side to every individual?

Blaming society wide issues on one group just exacerbates our problems. It solves exactly zero problems.

To dole out justice and right the ship, we need to pinpoint individuals who are responsible for doing harm, and we need to hold those individuals accountable for their actions.

It doesn't matter what the color of their skin is, or what religion they practice. It doesn't matter who they sleep with, or where they are from. An individual who purposely does harm to others needs to be punished and deterred from doing further harm.

Perhaps this is too tall an order right now, but one can only hope.

If El Salvador can do it, the United States can do it. The UK can do it. The EU can do it.

The "Free World" has a lot of work to do to live up to its title. For starters, perhaps we should drop all the awful ideological, tribal thinking.