A person's capacity for pain is staggering. rephrase... A person's capacity for causing pain is staggering. Are we all just miserable sadists, looking to inflict as much pain upon others as we from time to time feel? What kind of a people would do such a thing. A race of the Happiest Sadist. When we are hurt, our first inclination is never to forgive but rather to lash out and enact revenge on those who hurt us. And for what? That we might both revel in misery?

There is so much beauty in the world. So much love and so much goodness to live for, and yet humanity defines itself through pain. Through our own pain and through the pain of others. We glorify the wars which we have won and the men who killed the most "other men" in the wars.

I guess I just don't understand why we have words like "sorry" and "apologize" in our vocabulary if they don't mean anything when used. I can apologize to somebody 20 times, but if they can't hear me than my words do no more good than a clanging gong.