The realization that... Okay seriously this blew my mind. The realization that the majority of the rules/regulations/laws/policies that we have in place are d

The realization that... Okay seriously this blew my mind. The realization that the majority of the rules/regulations/laws/policies that we have in place are directly connected to the suffering of a human being. Our society is reactionary. We enact new rules in response to negative outcomes. Any time we try to pre-empt a bad outcome, people claim conspiracy and/or believe that the problem is being over dramatized. It takes a negative real world event (often several) before we collectively agree that it's a problem and do something about it. So then... all of humanity's progress is built upon the pain of other humans. That really sucks.