Bigotry

Bigotry is a curious impulse to make the world more like ourselves. Because of the fear of those unlike us and the fear of the unknown. We are wired to bet on safety, we are wired for life in the herd. It will take time for these instincts to encompass more than our families, our countries, religion, gender or race or even our own species, much less other indigenous life forms. We are still a primitive and precarious stage of evolution that could go either way, for both our own survival and that of much of our planet.

In the long run, it may not matter, I think other intelligences are at work and it's not just up to us. I just hope we have it within our species to give our best showing before we are destroyed by our own ignorance. Nature may just write it off as a path explored, with some fatal flaws, but somehow I think we take it more personally. Which may be part of the problem.