Yeah, that's true, Peace. We all get hurt. Life is like that. No one prepared me for some of the stuff I ran into either. I don't think there's any way that one can regulate it or control it from the top down to make it so no one gets hurt any more, but one can certainly try one's best not to hurt others.

The whites thought of the Indians as savages. The Indians thought of the whites as savages. There was a lost of circumstantial evidence to support (or deny) either viewpoint, depending on who you were and what part of it you were focusing on. They both committed very savage acts upon the other at times, yet both were equally human, and equally gifted with the finer human attributes.

Everyone feels their own pain. That's universal. When they make the stretch to fully comprehend someone else's pain, someone who is different from themselves, someone who belongs to a group deemed as "the enemy", then they have completed the circle of life and of understanding.