Todays generation has severe problems when it comes to self interest versus global interest. I made this realization while attending the Naomi Tutu lecture event about prejudice and racism. Following the conclusion of the lecture a black girl stood up and asked a question about justice. However, her question about justice turned out to be a badly worded definition of revenge. Naomi Tutu promptly pointed this out saying that the definition the student gave “sounds a lot like revenge to me.” However, the student refuses to realize this, and this is my point. Today’s generation is so extremely close minded and insensitive that we often become blind to the rest of the world. This makes revenge a bad idea because revenge would only lead to more revenge and would end badly for both sides, and extremely badly for one. This is what Tutu was getting at in that my generation needs to learn to accept and be understanding of justice even if it requires making sacrifices for the greater good. This is a huge difference between generations as our parents generation was able to comprehend situations like that and realize a small loss on their side was necessary for the greater good.
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