Humans Tremendous Capacity For Compassion And Hatred, Peace And War, Harmony And Conflict

Introduction

The elasticity of humans is endless and like a mystery. Humans are usually filled with compassion at times while at times they take things with hatred. Although some individuals fire to each other, they usually declare to be believers of peace. In most cases, humans are likely to seek conflict rather than harmony. Humans are different and depending on their actions, they can be categorized as evil or good. In this assignment, issues of human conflict and harmony, war and peace, compassion and hatred will be discussed through the use of relevant examples.

Human conflict is usually seen as inevitable; as long as humans are participating in various instances of nation building, there will always be a reason or a cause to conflict. Hence, conflict is inevitable to humans. The history of the world has depicted that humans must at one point or another conflict over issues that affect them. Take, for instance, there has been various conflicts, in the world, emanating from various social and religious issues affecting humans. For example, religion has been an issue of human conflict, where the Muslims have been engaged in constant conflicts with the Christians. A religious conflict has been experienced in various parts of the world, not because the Muslims and Christians do not have a humane nature to fellow brothers, whom they engage in conflicts with but because of the human nature to coerce with each other (Churchman, 2013. Pg 116). From the nature of societies and human essence, conflict is viewed as intrinsic to humans and is also a social necessity.

Sometimes, humans are coerced to engage in conflicts, whenever force is used to them, in instances of deprivations and threats. When there are such coercions, it is exceedingly difficult to take conflict as evitable. Such conflicts have been witnessed all over the world. For example, whenever citizens of a given country become discontented with their political leaders, they engage the political leaders in conflict, in an attempt to oust them from power. This has been experienced in most countries; for example, Egypt and Libya, where presidents have been removed from power due to the intrinsic nature of human beings of feeling discontented. In other cases, humans have been coerced to engage in conflict emanating from discontentment from work; whenever workers feel discontented with the pay that they receive, they usually engage in strikes, which are sometimes inevitable because it is as a result of the employer not fulfilling his promise (Churchman, 2013. Pg 142). In other instances, threats also make humans engage in conflicts. For example, terrorism is usually viewed as an act that shows inhumanity to many individuals. Therefore, most terrorists are viewed as enemies of the people; this makes people engage in constant conflicts with the terrorists whenever they are mentioned. For example, the 9/11 terrorist attack created a conflict amid humans since the terrorists are viewed as enemies to the other individuals. Therefore, there is no way that conflict can become evitable in society with the existence of coercion.

According to Simon Laurence, human conflict is inevitable when they come together in a social manner by any forms. Besides, conflict becomes engendered by the need to obtain the necessary resources. Therefore, conflicts are omnipresent among humans wherever they exist on the planet (Simon, 1998. Pg 136). For example, a couple may engage in conflict because of an argument over the place they wish to travel while a kid may engage in conflict with his parents because a kid may want to purchase a skating board, but the parents dismiss the point on the argument that the skating board may cause harm to the kid. This depicts that conflicts among humans is inevitable because of the different ways of thinking of humans. On the other hand, humans also engage in conflict because of their difference in faith and beliefs. For example, the Israeli and Arabs have engaged in conflicts because of their religious differences. Besides, the teachings of Buddhism and that of Christianity differ, which make Buddhists and Christians to engage in conflicts.

Although individuals may coexist together in peace and understanding each other, there comes a time, when their different needs and outlooks emerge; in such circumstances, conflict is inevitable because of their conflicting ideas. It may become impossible creating a world that is conflict free; however, conflict is not usually the problem but it seems natural that conflict emanates from the friction that comes amid individuals living together, sharing aspirations, resources and obstacles. Human differences can be considered a creative process, which leads to the exploration of other points of view, adjustment of expectations, and becoming exceedingly sensitive to the needs of others. In case differences amid individuals are not resolved, they inevitably flair up and turn into conflicts (Kurtz  & Turpin, 1999. Pg 42). For instance, racial discrimination results because humans feel that they are different; if racial discrimination persists, then human conflict will result. It is due to the human nature that conflict is inevitable.

It is not every human that sees the need of being assisted from a situation as wanting; this is because of the difference in how individuals view themselves. Some individuals may be in need of help but they do not realize that they need any assistance until they see the benefit of the situation. Therefore, it is sometimes, necessary to intervene in the lives of others even if they do not want it; it is after the intervention that they may come to realize that they really needed the intervention. An intervention may be necessary to the lives of people if the intervention is going to be beneficial to the lives, but they cannot see it. One such example entails conflict resolution. Some people may not want to resolve a conflict because they are the automatic beneficiaries of the conflict. In such a case, an intervention to resolve the conflict is necessary in order to help end the conflict and promote peaceful coexistence (Fry, 2007. Pg 92). For example, a workers’ strike may result from the employer reaching an agreement already discussed amid the employer and employees. However, the employer may avoid parties such as unions intervening in the employer-employees conflict, but the intervent.............