How do people become so cold, cruel and evil?

I was scrolling through my Facebook news feed last night and came upon a post from one of my friends. The thumbnail was a naked man surrounded by armed men. The caption read “not for the weak hearted”. I don’t know what possessed me to click and watch, but I did. To put it short the group of men tortured and proceeded to chop up a rival hitman from a rival gang. What was going through my mind is how can people be so cruel and treat people like they are jus a piece of meat. I know the rival hitman is not innocent, however there are a lot of innocent people who suffer the same faith.

I’ve seen people kill or brutally hurt others over minor confrontations or nothing at all. Last year 2 poor teenage girls got beating to death with machetes and baseball bats by a gang for nothing. Just wrong place wrong time. Was enraged when I read the story. Sometimes I ask why God allows so much suffering in the world. I guess at the end of the day God gave us all free will. We can’t blame him for what others choose to do with it. Most of humanities problems in my opinion are caused by humans. We have enough food, land, and resources for us all. However do to greed and power many of us have lost ourselves.

I use to be afraid of death, but as time passes I getting use to the idea. We can’t live forever, but I wish we all can make the life of one another meaningful and for us all to live as long as possible. I took a break form the news because everyday is a group of people dying somewhere. A lot of human suffering don’t even make it on the news. What’s sad is that we call can bring not total world peace which is impossible in my opinion. But something close.