what makes the world dangerous?

Adrenaline is the fight or flight hormone that is triggered whenever someone is presented with danger. For me, this says something. That we humans are made for danger and it is inevitable for danger to linger on. Different kinds of danger haunted humans in different time periods and humans try to do something about this to lessen the danger. But as they eliminate the threat of one danger, a new danger emerges. According to the book, this is like making a cycle of danger. That as we humans try to eliminate it, the stronger it gets. And that our own action of eliminating it, strengthens it. From wild beasts to fellow humans then to hand weapons and now nuclear weapons. Each a solution to the previous danger but in turn becomes the source of new danger.

It is currently the Lenten season and I remembered where danger started. Man wouldn’t have had any danger if they were still in the Garden of Eden where God protects man. But human sin kicked man out of the garden where danger is everywhere. Danger is really, even in the period before time, come from man and human downfalls. Greed, lust, jealousy, pride, gluttony, and the sorts motivate people to satisfy themselves and through this they make new dangers in the world.

So what makes the world dangerous? Well in my opinion, in the first place, if there were no humans there wont be any danger, being that humans coined the word, but also that without humans, everything will just be the natural course of nature. So man causes danger to the world. Danger that even the innocent, the weak and even the strong are exposed to, and that there is nothing anyone can do to eliminate it, well at least not now.

Maybe globalization was one of the attempts to eliminate danger in this world. Through globalization, everyone is interconnected and everyone knows what’s happening everywhere so that people can monitor each other. But along with this, globalization gave new mediums for danger to threaten people. The internet for an example gave new ways to define danger. Identities now can be stolen, people can hack and get information from other people and even wars can be started from the misuse of the internet. But maybe through globalization, a new way of eliminating danger can be discovered.