It's quite funny that when we describe someone being humane, we mean that they are treating others right, morally right. However, looking at the history of humanity it's not really known for being right, or morally right. Rather it is splattered with genocides, warfare, and all things gruesome. Technically, humanity is known for more of its atrocities than its good.
When we describe someone being inhuman it means that haven't been very nice. Howbeit, isn't that a bit convenient to say," Oh those acts were inhumane." When in reality it would seem that those things are very human. Human do terrible things. It would almost seem that it is part of us. To say that is not human would seem to dislocate yourself from what humanity is really like. It may not be who we are or what we aspire to be, but it's what we seem to do. It would be like denying that you don't have freckles. Not having freckles doesn't make you more or less human, it's just things that humans have.
Furthermore, we have this saying, "I'm human." And that's the thing, being human does not make you perfect. It means you make mistakes, you do really stupid things, and sometimes we do really repulsive things. Things that would seem to be so dreadful. However, that's just doing things that are human. It doesn't make you less or more human for doing horrible things. For the very fact is that humans do make terrible mistakes but it does not affect who you are as a human. It only makes you a human who has done evil things.
Realizing that we do these things is like the first step of understanding humanity as a whole. In this light, we can realize, yes, we are humans. We do these things, but that means we can also change our ways. Help others who have made these mistakes, because they are still humans. When we say something is inhumane we immediately try to distant ourselves, but we don't seem to realize is that they are humans. Humans who have made an error and need help. If we distant ourselves from people they will only carry on their terrible deeds.
It's like in Africa with the Warlords, they make their followers do unspeakable things so they are bonded together in their hideous deeds. Why? Because now humanity believes they are no longer humane and thus a different breed and not our problem.
While yes, I know you cannot make peace with everyone. We can only try. Armed with the fact that everything is forgivable and we can try to realize that people are still human. They have a chance because humans do terrible things, but that doesn't mean they aren't human still. It only means that they are just being humans who did something bad, but that doesn't change they're identity as humans.
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