This section will include items about the terrible things that people do to other people who they are envious of or who they believe to be inferior and not worthy of existence. I am, of course, referring to hate crimes and the mistreatment and exclusion of humans who do not fit into the normality of a group of elitists.
Elitists can be well to do lords of the land and they can also be drug dealing street gangs. Many people act as elitists when dealing with the subject of religion. It is natural to want to think that one's own religion is the true religion and, as a result, therefore believe that other religions are not true religions. These people of "religion" may then also think that people who are part of a group or a behavior that is considered "evil" are fair game for extinction or in need of "salvation".
When people come to understand that we are all on this planet and in this universe together and that we are all equal, then perhaps hate crimes will cease. When we understand that we are animals just like other creatures then perhaps we will treat animals with the same respect that we should have for each other.
Many organized religions have historically allowed for the persecution, execution, and other bad behavior toward those who are not conforming to the doctrine of the religion. There are too many examples of this in the history of humans. By the way, animals, other than human animals, have also been adversely treated by people of religion.
To inaugurate this section, I have chosen a Web site of an individual who was shot several times by a person who was being initiated into a gang. The horror of this story is the behavior of the people of the community where this man was shot and the behavior of the law community of the town of Little Rock, Arkansas where this hate crime was committed, not only by the shooter, but by the god fearing jerks of the town.
There are many stories of terror against people and animals. Many times, the terrorists, are, as the story goes, "protesting too much". That is to say, people who are afraid that they may be found out as being a minority or target of the hate of a community, will act as though they also hate and persecute the minority to which they belong in an effort to avoid being targeted by the community. This phenomena is seen in the efforts of Catholic priests who denounce homosexuality while practicing it themselves.
Shot in Little Rock for being gay.
A story of the sorrows of women in Afghanistan.