english paper. i like it

Albert Einstein once said, "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing." Before high school or even two years ago I would have thought this quote meant nothing to me or anyone else. However, through the teenager years I have come to know the true meaning of what this world really is and even though this knowledge came through a few years of very minor experiences one vital event triggered my thought process and turned that meaningless quote, to one of the most valuable things I have ever heard.
Central Catholic High school is on Airport road in Bloomington. Every day would be the same routine; class, band, lunch, class, sleep, class and then back home just to do it all over again as many times as it took to get to the weekend. Naturally being in a Catholic school we also had what is called Theology. It's a class that talks about other world religions and Catholicism along with many old and contemporary moral issues. Moral issues that include: nuclear warfare, Invetro fertilization, and the ever so popular, Abortion.
Abortion is a very polarizing subject matter and some don't even want to think or talk about it, which is all understandable. However being in a Catholic school, not talking about it wasn't an option. In fact, in a given year we probably had 5-10 assignments, if not more, dealing with abortion in any given school year. So on an ordinary day, in theology, I was given a one to two page paper on why the after effects of Abortion to a woman that was harmful. So I went home and naturally we had 3 days to complete the paper, but I waited to the night before to do it. I started to write the paper and find some quick research online until I found it.
When I did research I usually just pick the top three sites that were most informative on a subject and do my paper, but as I started to go through sites one by one I saw that each had a different say. For instance, a pro-life site would have the effects of "post-abotion stress", but at the same time a pro-choice site would have no effects, or sometimes they would have some or even more then the pro-life sites. All of this worthless information was confusing me, i mean, I could put down the effects that support the opinion of Catholicism, but is that really the true facts? Once the difference between truth and fact anyway? So I got tired of reading so many misleading resources and tried youtube to see if they had any matter on the subject. I tried the first video and was shocked to find a pro-life video that was the most horrifying thing I have ever seen.
The video started out with a bunch of facts that were probably slightly changed but the same things I have heard over and over again. Then cued in was this very cheesy christian-inspirational music, and then they just started showing pictures of post-aborted fetuses, they were all chopped up on boards and they showed countless of pictures of body parts and little twisted baby faces. Then, when I thought the worst was over they actually show a baby being pulled out of the womb. There are not words I can think of, that described how I felt. Shocked can't cover it, horrified can't cut it either, but rage is the closet thing I felt until the video was over. I wish I could tell you what I thought or did after that, although I am sure I sat in front of the computer dumb-founded for a solid hour without moving.
I like scary movies, because they are not real and maybe this was a very good planned out hoax that a couple of psychotic christian fundamentalists, however, I doubt it. War veterens say you don't really know what war is until your in one, or you don't know what poor is until you are dirt poor and I can tell you that you don't know what abortion is until you actually see one.
The worst part, and I mean the absolutely worse part was the place that underneath the video screen you can post comments and underneath the video was some of the dumbest things I have ever read. Death threats, false accuastions it was all there. Comment after comment I read and reread to make sure I was reading everything right. They weren't even from one side or the other the comments were from both sides!! I would you waste you time writing all this garbage when there is so much work to be done?
I carried that with me up to this very day, I mean why fight about ignorant stuff of "I'm right, your wrong!!!!" and just find some way to fix the problem. Even in politics we pick the best looking, most-connected person in one of only two very polarizing parties. Every war, every atrocity, every stupid little thing we as the human race fight and argue about is the result of each person thinking their blood is more valuable then their fellow human's blood. The idea seems pathetic, does it not?
My experience of life and the wisdom it holds has been very short, and maybe i am completely naive to what can be done, however I feel something should be done. Instead of bickering at each other we should get over ourselves to find out what is truth. This paper is about people not disagreeing, but rather its about the uselessness of every 8 billion of us to yell at the roof tops and not get anything done. Those few very disturbing moments gave me insight on what we can do if we are divided, can you imagine what we could do if we we united? Abraham Lincoln once said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." If we allow our inaction to continue our home will be destroyed.