Teach a Child To Bully a Seagull And We Can Kiss World Peace Goodbye

Making sense of the senseless:
Teach a child to bully a seagull and you can kiss world peace goodbye
With the Boston bombing so fresh in mind many people are trying to make sense of what a person can get out of inflicting hurt and horror on such an incredible scale.
inflicting hurt and horror on such an incredible scale.
 The answer lies in our children.
In order to find peace we must teach our children that kindness is the only way.
I live on the beach and have my heart broken each day by watching  innocent gentle seagulls set upon by  bullies.
I have watched adults teach their small children, here watch what I do and then you do it, and
proceed to demonstrate when they run into a group of resting birds, screaming, how the birds all
rise as one terror stricken unit and flee to safety.
Then I watch the child they have taught imitate the exact same action.
 I have been told by these people they are playing with the birds, it is fun for the birds too.
I have read where pedophiles have the exact same justifications of their horrific abuse of their young victims.
No terror from a bully is never fun, at least not for the victim.
 Let us teach our children terror is never justified and never rewarding or fun.
The point I am making here is not to defend seagulls ( although I am doing that also), but to show how by allowing and condoning and encouraging  small cruel behavior to any smaller animal by a child, leads to a child that will also find it perfectly acceptable to bully a smaller child in school, and then to bully a less powerful adult when they become adults.
You never see a parent foolish enough to teach a child to threaten an alligator.
The Boston Bombers grew from such beginnings where cruelty was okay.
Peace comes from within, that is why violence can never be controlled by limiting weapons.
Weapons are the effect, not the cause of violence .
 Take away the gun,and a violent person will use a knife.
Why?
Because the weapon  is only a tool the individual uses to play out the the violence within.
The individual is the cause.
Violence is taught and learned .
Turn on your television and you will see that 95% of all shows are murder and violence.
 Where is the line between make believe and reality drawn?
Why is it fun for people to  view shows on murder, rape and torture on a daily basis.
To see them as  a dandy way to wile away the afternoon, immersing themselves in hour after hour of viewing  horror as a casual form of entertainment.
As an adult you might (and even that is stretching it) be able to discern the difference but can a small developing mind have difficulty in seeing when it's on T.V. it's alright, but when you act it out in real life it's wrong 
If you don't want the violence to show up in real life why would you ever view the horror of violence
as fascinating when you watch it on T.V.
So yes teach a child to bully a seagull and you can kiss world peace goodby because it is from
the small acts of cruelty that the large acts of atrocity grow.
Teach your child when  the choice is between cruelty or kindness, always always choose the kindness.
When each of us choose kindness over cruelty,World Peace will reign.
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