How not to poison a child’s heart

This is a remarkable story because a parent chose to leave a child’s heart in its natural, original form, pure from human stains.

Child heart.1

The little girl in the picture above went shopping for toys with her mom. She picked out a lovely doll. When she and her mom went to the counter to pay for it, the cashier said something to the effect that they had dolls that looked like her and she might like them better. The girl said that she liked that doll because she was a doctor as she wanted to be one when she grew up, and the doll had straight hair just like hers.

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It is my personal belief that most humans are born without hate, regardless of racial group or skin color. Dare I say, if a Jewish child was raised together with a Palestinian child in a loving family, a Caucasian with an African, Chinese with Japanese, any X with any Y, they will get along fine. They will periodically fight like siblings do. But in the end, they will love each other like most brothers and sisters, too.

There are some people who believe vehemently that if you are born different, like between a dog and a cat, you will fight like dog and cat. That is why we should never forget and forgive the Nazis, the Europeans who killed under the pretense of religious crusades, the Japanese soldiers who raped Nanking – and the descendants of those Nazis, those crusaders, and those Japanese murderers. Never! To these believers, may I ask, (1) Are you sure you are pure bred, and if you are, pure of which breed, and (2) Can you honestly prove to yourself that none, absolutely zero
of your ancestors had ever been a murderer, a rapist ….?

There is yet another group of people, whom I shall call “mathematical philosophers.” They believe that there are just as many good, moral people as those who are bad and evil. Ying and yang, positive and negative, saints and satans. That is how the world keeps its balance. That is how we understand happiness because we experienced pain before. This theory seems to make sense, because there are a lot of good people, and a lot of bad people everywhere. It is awfully cruel, but it is credible.

I am a naïve man, have been for the last 62 years. I believe that babies are born free of hate and prejudice until they are corrupted by their parents, by society. I have no scientific proof that it is genetically correct, but I rather think it is that way. It makes me happy, hopeful for humankind. And the same belief seems to make a few friends and sometimes strangers happy and hopeful too. That’s good enough for me.

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