My uncle (one of my mom's brother, she has 8 siblings) lives in a small town about 300 miles away from where I live, in which I used to spend vacation times until the late 90s. He is a farm owner, owning several cows, I'm not sure if he uses them for meat or milk, I'm not sure what exactly he did. Although Brazil is an incredibly violent country, that small town had a very low crime rate, people can let their front doors unlocked, walk around at night, and everything of the sort without fear of getting robbed or mugged or whatever.
Yesterday, at night, my cousin (his son) and his girlfriend were coming back to his home a few minutes after midnight, when three heavily armed men with masks surrended both. They went in, and tied up everyone (my uncle, his wife, my cousin and his girlfriend) in the bathroom, while stealing cash and other stuff.
For no reason whatsoever, the burglars stabbed my uncle four times, and ran away. He was taken to the hospital but died.
While everyone from my family is shocked and stunned, and the police is trying to get hold of those resposibles (still no major clues, they found some stuff on a trail a few miles away) - although I do belive it might have been someone who worked for him, or who knew him personally.
Now, I ask myself, why? I don't want any of the political discussions to the cause or solution to violence, that is not the point. What I don't belive is how people can be so mean, so cold hearted, so evil... This sort of thing is getting to be so usual here, that I belive this is how I'm going to eventually die, being murdered...
I could do as some people advised me, get away from this shithole while I still can, but the thing is, violence is not concentrated to this area, it's everywhere. It's on the US, Europe, Asia, it can happen anywhere. There are mean natured people everywhere, even those who don't pull out a gun or a knife might go on and insult people... Or bully... Or yell and curse at the traffic, or talk behind people on work...
Humanity itself sickens me, and it always have, those of you who had the unfortunate bad luck to discuss politics with me know that. More and more my nihilistic point of view proves to be the way to the truth. People don't care about each other, don't love each other, it's all about money, about sex, about getting ahead of each other, about killing before they kill you, it's about injustice, greed, violence...
Do you guys still belive we have any hope?