If you think you are sane you might try to don't participate in such a horrible thing. You see that is the problem you assumed that you are sane.
You lied to yourself that you are a nice person incapable of hurting even a fly. Well i have news for you violence is just a normal part of life, there is no way to eliminate it. If a lion is going to eat he has to hunt down an innocent animal kill it and eat it. By default self-preservation requires violence, if you have to eat you have to kill.
But we are special we are different then other animals, we are smart and conscious. This is exactly the problem, this is why we are the most violent animal that exist on this planet. Like all the animals we have only one motivation self-preservation, but be cause we are self conscious, we are aware that we exist, we will eventually discover that like all forms of life we will eventually stop to exist. This makes self-preservation a lot harder, for your typical animal eating, sex and safety will generally make him be contempt, but if you are a human being how can you be contempt when you know that no matter what you do you can't change the end of the story and this creates constant anxiety.
If i learned one true fact about anxiety is that it is never over, being aware of your own mortality creates a never ending anxiety you will never get ride off. This leaves human beings in a bizarre situation, if you become a hedonist and chose to pay attention only on what gives you pleasure, you are missing your life how can you live your life fully when you chose to exclude so much of it, if you subject yourself to finding the truth and living your life based on the truth, you will constantly encounter sad unpleasant facts that will diminish the quality of your life.
So if you haven't yet realize this you might be looking for external ways to get ride of your anxiety like things that gives you the sensation that you are of a great importance and that you are going to live something behind that will make you immortal in a way. This in itself doesn't sound too bad, if you are going to find the cure for cancer to become famous and rich. But unfortunately this is not the only thing that we do, because we are uncertain about so many things we have to speculate, so the only reasonable thing to do is pick a side.
This is why all groups organisations will eventually go through a schism, because of this you always end up with at least two groups competing against each other. You see it is impossible to know everything about anything so the things that we don't know we have to fill with speculation. So when you run in to someone that chose the other camp you start questioning yourself about your decisions, so that will give you anxiety because now you realize that there is a chance you made a mistake.
We often use the people from the other camp as a scapegoat to blame for our internal existential anxiety, we lye to ourselves that if we would just make this people accept our ideology or get rid of them we will achieve haven on earth.
I could argue that this form of scapegotism is what generates the most amount of violence on the planet, including all the wars we ever had.
Saying that you never lye it is a lye in itself, because it is an impossible standard to live to, the same way as saying that you are not a violent person it is an impossible standard to live. Good people are not the one that are never violent, are those that know that they are capable of being, and actually practiced it at times through out their lives but feel bad for what they did.
This is how you end up with the lowest levels of violence in the world, by being aware of your own nature and the negative consequences, by not denying violence you can become self disciplined enough to be as less violent as possible.
This is why the world is already broken! You don't have to change it, that is impossible, you just have to accept it.
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