Humanity's Failure

A lot of people don't necessarily understand what is happening, and yet everyone has their own opinion about it that they feel too entitled in asserting that right. What is worse, people start arguing with established knowledge of how science works and often find themselves in a middle of a dilema, blaming the government for what it cannot impose that curtails the people's freedoms.

The media can be caught in the middle of this dilema, too. Often times, the news influence public opinion to the point of defiance, and a lot is going on especially during an election year where public policy comes to scrutiny in anticipation of what could be a heated presidential debate.

As much as democracy is desirable, for it to work for what it is intended to be, the population must be educated to understand a government under scrutiny. A person familiar with science would generally understand why masks must be worn in public places. And yet, we have people debating whether the government can do that. Health safety should not be argued in legal terms.

These past few months, we have seen people deeply divided, and it highlights some of humanity's failures. The civil rights movement is nothing new, and yet we still see these rights being violated across the United States. There are problems that will continue to exist if we will not defend these rights. Laws are useless without respect for it. We will always see many protests if common resolve will not be done.

Whether it is legal or not, questions about humanity is deeply embedded in our hearts that whatever legal maxim the Supreme Court later on uphold, it is a senseless and futile exercise without people respecting it. A democracy without common respect is just a tyranny of the majority.

Whatever these things brings us forward into this year, we have to be reminded of our failures and let us not be defined by it. Freedoms are a continued struggle, and that is why people are divided over it. May these struggles point us to the different failures that we need to resolve, and inspire us to work for the betterment of our common humanity.

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The editorial is sponsored by Dunkin'.