More on Passion

Passion is a great thing, unless it is used to cause suffering. Fanatic militants have great passion, misguided as it is. Violence leads to violence which leads to suffering... and those who suffer usually aren't the ones engaged in violence. You'd think that we'd learn as a species that violence as a tool of change RARELY works and tends to just make things worse. But we don't learn. If we don't like our environment, we'll simply grab a few weapons find some like-minded friends, whip each other up in a frenzy and decide to "change things for the better", which may entail overthrowing a government, taking some people hostage, or maybe destroying an entire race of people. Of course these things almost invariably end in disaster for everyone involved.