I Am A Real Werewolf

This is to everyone.

Judging groups is lazy, ignorant, and can lead to the deaths of many innocent people. Only individuals can be judged, and they must be judged ba<x>sed on their actions. For humans, hating or fearing people who are different is understandable to an extent. It is natural for all living beings to be initially cautious of something it does not understand. This is an act of self-preservation; keeping your distance until you can judge whether or not something is a threat. Throughout human history, however, judging groups has caused countless problems and countless deaths for no good reason. Judging an individual that seems suspicious is being cautious, but judging a man as suspicious because he is black is racist as well as an unjustifiable act of laziness. To be afraid of things you do not understand is, again, understandable, but there is no reason why you cannot judge those things individually. If you fear, for example, a non-human, do not rely on the most-likely false information you may know about their group as a whole, whatever that group may be. Instead, judge them individually ba<x>sed on what they do. Assuming you know someone before you have even met them is how innocent people get killed; torn from life by ignorant people who did not take the time to use their eyes and observe the truth.

To non-humans: no crusade of vengeance against humans is justified because it generalizes humans as a group instead of judging them individually. By doing this, you place a murderer in the same category as a newborn child; a greedy politician in the same category as a college student. Although you may not think of it this way, when you speak of hatred or distaste for “humans”, that is exactly what you are doing. You are expressing your insecurities by turning all of humanity into an evil entity that you can direct your frustrations toward and seek some sort of catharsis, in some cases by thinking of the slaughter of innocent people. Also, no crusade of equality begins with dividing “us” from “them”. Equality is not seeking rights for non-humans only to claim that humans are inferior. That is doing to “them” what you complain they have done to “us”. By seeking vengeance or seeking dominance, you are no better than whatever false image of darkness you conjure up to justify your cause. You are lying to yourself; convincing people that, somehow, murder makes sense because it was done to your kind in the past. And where are those people now? Those people that you blame for the state of those like you, where are they? Are they alive? Dead? Do you even know, or are you just using the word “humans” because it makes you feel better to blame a group than to seek out the ones who hurt you or hurt people like you? Do you hate all human children, or just the adults? What about the seniors? What is the age-range, what is the category, what are the boundaries of your hatred? Have you even thought this through, or do you just hate indiscriminately because it is easier? Know that, no matter what you do or how you try to justify your actions, when you wage war on “humans”, you wage war on everyone; people with families as much as people without them, the innocent and the guilty without distinction. Whatever reason or principle you fight for, it does not take away from the fact that you seek to dominate or kill a rapist as much as the raped when you point a finger at “humans”.

To everyone: some of the most horrid events in history were carried by the creation of divisions; “us” versus “them”, “good” versus “evil”. We have a tendency to see differences between people, but we categorize in terms of quality instead of in terms of equal difference. There are two ways to categorize things as different: horizontally and vertically. When we see two trees in a park, we can point out the differences. Perhaps one is bigger than the other and one has different colored or differently-shaped leaves. That these differences exist is a fact. However, which tree is “better” is an opinionated judgment not ba<x>sed on fact but on personal taste. One person could cay that the bigger tree is better, simply because it is bigger. Another person could say that the smaller one is better because it does not resist wind as much and is less likely to fall over. Or, perhaps, the larger one is growing close to some power lines and must be cut back. This is an example of a unique situation; a point at which we must judge individually, not ba<x>sed on all big or small trees everywhere, but whether or not being bigger is good for a tree when it is close to power lines and could end up being cut back. The purpose of this example is to both express the importance of individual situations as well as point out the arbitrary nature of choosing what is “better”. We do not wage wars about what type of music is “better”, but that is because we recognize that different people like different kinds of music. Whether or not a song is loud, quiet, mostly instrumental, or mostly vocal are all things we can judge ba<x>sed on facts. Whether or not the song is “good” is nothing more than an opinion; a value-ba<x>sed judgment that has no factual basis. This vertical categorization; saying that one thing is “better” or more important than another. Horizontal categorization, on the other hand, is the recognition or difference without value-ba<x>sed judgments. We can see that two trees or two songs are different and we accept that difference. Whether or not we like them is our opinion, not something to justify war or murder. If you do not like something, then do not come into contact with it. If you do like something, then like it. Everyone is different. The level or degree of difference between two people may vary, but it is not a matter of who or what is better than someone or something else. Instead, it is a matter of accepting that we are all different to some extent and that value placed on those differences, be it good or bad, has no factual grounds. Any distinctions of “superiority” and “inferiority” are invented within the realm of our personal opinions; perspectives that have no more substance or importance than what color of shirt you prefer to wear or what kind of food you like to eat. I say this to all people, all beings, because there is no excuse for childish pursuits of vengeance or mindless campaigns of “purification” when they are all ba<x>sed on personal opinion, not on anything logical or factual. To hate people you do not know, to judge entire groups without thought, is to incite both pointless conflict and needless murder. We will always fight because we are living beings, and the desire to survive or to satisfy certain desires may drive us to cause harm. All I ask here is that no one start a war that will achieve absolutely nothing, only forcing everyone back into a loop of idiotic violence that leaves masses of innocent bodies in its wake. You can be remembered as people who sought progress and cooperation or as people without logical mind who kill because you are too insecure to deal with your own inner conflicts. You can fight or you can live the life you have. We are not guaranteed tomorrow, so let us live today.