Artists for World Peace, Inc.

An excerpt from an interview with Matt Embree of the RxBandits (http://mattembree.blogspot.com/):

As someone who travels for a living I truly believe that a clear path to, at least, tolerance….
because you can’t ask people to be like you or to be any way for that matter.  You can only ask them to think for themselves.  I think that’s the most optimal situation.  For everyone to have the same amount of information available and for them to take that information and think for themselves.  That’s because I think humans are naturally altruistic and given the situation and the access to knowledge, that we would become a more peaceful race in general.

But I think it’s cool.  I’m a traveler,  I believe without a doubt, whole heartedly, in my travel experience. I haven’t been all over the world but I’ve been a few places…

Having been to South America, Central America, every country in North America (except Alaska). I’ve been to every country in Western Europe and almost all the countries in Eastern Europe.  I’ve only been to one country in Africa and I’ve only been to Japan.  So Asia and Africa are the least traveled places.  But I will say this:  The more that people and their cultures meet the more likely it is for us to treat each other with more respect.  And violence is natural in human beings.  It’s natural in all creatures, but war is not natural in other creatures at all.

War is sadly unique, only to the human race.  Iratication of other species is unique to the human race and it’s an unfortunate thing.  Maybe it’s because we are such a young species.