Poverty makes people opportunistic, it brings out their dark and manipulative side, because of their desire to eat, drink, clothe, make merry, and feed. However, we make too many excuses for "poverty" and this is because poverty is a state. When people fail to fight it, they'll begin to find comfortable ways to establish a "stayable" situation.
A lot of people justify their wickedness, they call it "the need to survive", while it's true that people do desperate things to survive, there's actually a thin line that people should draw, hence they'll lose their humanity and become savages without conscience.
For example, my brother's passing has generated a lot of turmoil among his kinsmen. These people are clamoring for all his properties to be sold so that the money generated can be used to redo a second burial.
The rioting has become too much, and the truth is that watching these men pander for over a 24-year-old who never fulfilled his goals in life, married, had kids, or even owned a sustainable business makes me wonder how far some people can go to justify their savagery and greed. It was that scenario where Jesus was nailed to the cross and his tormenters were casting lots to see who would take his garment.
These people are people who never contributed anything meaningful to his life, it's surprising how they live up to 90 and 100 years and continue to perpetrate their dark wickedness. The fact that they're demanding a second burial can only be proper if the person who passed is of age, had children, or established themselves. These men are not completely poor, most of them are just opportunistic.
They're always waiting for people to either marry or die to fulfill their nefarious intentions.
They're like the urchins, vigilante or mobs in every established society of eastern Nigeria
I spent a part of yesterday weeping profusely. This is because, I find it absurd that some old men want to collect money to eat and drink, rather than weep that an illustrious son, who could potentially be their grandchild is no more. It makes me question the need for morality, but it's understandable, people justify their wickedness with cultural appropriation and this goes to show that death reveals so many things.
On the other hand, I won't blame them.
The universe does not follow the ethics or principles of morality. Good people are powerless and depraved, while wicked people are in positions of power.
The people who control the corner piece of the earth are mostly villains..
People who creates pandemic and provide the vaccines in exchanges for billions, affluence and power
people who have kept others in servitude, and taken advantage of humanity to enrich and make themselves more powerful. It's bizarre, but terrible people are the ones who get to live long pleasurable, and influential lives.
There's no decency in the human order, and when you think news of death can make some people empathetic, this is when people become even more opportunistic. These people are trying to rob the dead, someone they never recognized what his face used to look like. Someone who they never knew his struggles.
It creates a ripple effect.
Decency is what makes good people stay good.
I thought about so many terrible things to do to these people, but apparently, I wouldn't want to carry that guilt all my life. Decency makes people appear weak. When people are good, it's impossible to reach into their soul and establish vengeance.
The world is a wicked place, and wicked people are the ones that thrive. People who go the extra mile to become diabolical are the ones who are on top of the food chain, and it's so antithetical to realize that people who follow the rules of decency and humanity are the ones who end up not making it.
There's no retribution in life.
Most of the retributive scenarios we create in our mind through movies or theatre are just a manifestation of our thoughts, in real life, bad men are the ones who control reality. I'm doubting if I'll not end up to become as twice as villainous as these people after this painful experience.
Afterall pain is what redefines people, when you begin to realize there's no justice, it might want to make you create your own justice, life is lawless and follows no pattern, you mostly get to realize this when you look at loss, reeling from the wickedness meted out to you
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