"All that it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." - Sir Edmund Burke, 1769.
Reading this quote, really made me stop and think about how this is sadly so true, yet realistic in our world today. The first example that came to mind is the tribulations that are occurring at the Douglas Creek Estates (DCE). It is atrocious to see how our government and other Canadian citizens are not doing anything to help what is going on, at these reserves. As Canada being one of the most praised countries for being a peacekeeping nation, yet when it comes to our own problems, we cannot achieve the same peaceful state. This is shown specifically seeing that the Red Cross committees helping out in Haiti traveled to these reserves to help the citizens. This is a shining example of how Canadian citizens-healthy and willing are not helping to contribute to solving this situation. Thus, this corrupt dilemma is escalading. As living in the 21st century, I believe this needs to stop. Not only are we more accessible then ever to travel around the globe and help problems around the world but we also have the technology to create solutions to our problems. Although we have done a lot to help our world, we need to continue more of actually ‘walking the walk’ not just ‘talking the talk.’
It is sad but true on how realistic this quote reflects our world today. Great examples of how this quote reflects our world and how it acts today! So many events throughout the year is truly reflective of the quote.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's just so easy not to do anything. It only becomes difficult when evil has grown to a point where something HAS to be done. It was easy for the allies to allow Hitler to violate the Treaty of Versaille in his building up of the German army. The hard part was destroying that army once it was allowed to be built
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