X-men has always been a very good movie, not only does it has good animations to distinguish normal human beings and those genetically difference, but more importantly, X-men always stress the conflicts between genetically difference and normal people.
In X-men First Class, it clearly emphasis that Charles (Professor X) believes that human being and genetically different people could co-exist with respect and peace, which may be just a matter of time, while Erik (Magneto) believes that normal people will try all their means to kill, destroy or put genetically different people under control (this does reflect in the last episode of X-men)
The question that immediately pop up in my mind is, why people always try every means to eliminate those that are different from them or put these different spices under well control? However, we never see animals having such kind of behaviour. They attack only to survive because they are either being attacked or they are hunting for food, yet in normal circumstances, they can always co-exists and not to mention controlling other spices
Such special behaviour of human beings, to eliminate or to control these "outliners" may highly due to the traditional way of surviving methodology of human being. They killed those threaten them if they couldn't put other animals under control, or just kept the animals inside the zoo cage. A very typical example is human will normally try to killed spiders and insects when they see them, while your pet say dog will simply play with them.
Besides, unlike animals, we well defined our property right and privacy. We built house for ourselves and also rooms for our own. Yet animal live together with the same spices while never define a room for themselves.
Actually even in today's society, despite we cant prove if genetically different people will have special power, yet it is undeniably that we humans try to eliminate those who are unlike or deviate from the norm. We never except something difference. And humans are taught to try whatever means to cope with the norm and converge to the norm since young/ kindergarten. Superactive or quiet people has to use whatever medical threapy to help them to adapt to norm. However, why cant the norm appreciate what they born to be and their true beauty? Does anyone think of the problem does not lie with the so called abnormal beings but the ability to accept outliners by the norm? Why shall people taught to be alike and towards the norm, is it simply because of easy management of the society, or some high-ended people who actually deviate from the norm hopes to fool the norm and earn as much as they can from them, or is it because human beings lack the ability to accept things that are difference?
Even during small group conversation, if one states out an idea or opinion or having some kind of behaviour that is different from the norm, people try to discriminate them as weird, yet does that mean wrong and can we conclude the norm is correct.
As a rational human being, we need to distinguish right and wrong rather than norm or deviate from norm. We act when we believe it is correct even we are the minority and outliner, cos only outliners stand the chance to win and beat the norm. Never act according to norm without thinking or just hoping to be recognized as one of them (the norm). One should be proud of who they really are rather than how "normal" they are
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