Purity

Purity is a world that normally takes you to think about the most valuable, the most beautiful, the most perfect thing in life. The race of our pets and other animals are often measured through their  levels of "purity", this understood as the avoiding of race mixing. Materials are also measured on their purity, again referring to the lack of mixing with other elements. The word also may refer to the lack of flaws, stains or imperfections of any sort.

Purity is still applied also to people and thought. The purity in people can be understood as in the case of animals, and considered as the quality of being of no mixed race, but also, from no mixed backgrounds on any level. A pure person has the right believes, the right parents and the right bloodline. A pure person not only has the right thoughts, but furiously - and yet socially properly - fights again any exposition to impure thoughts.

At the same time, societies have often pushed the idea of purity as the only good and acceptable thing to levels that automatically exclude most of the members, and imposed such inhuman, stiff rules that squashed all chances of happiness. In a sense, a "virtue" of purity, is that only in absolute purity are all individuals or elements alike in such a way, that there's no need to tolerate differences. All pure individuals are carbon copied one from the other. Impurity, from the other side, though can work with the idea that all individuals are alike, must also tolerate the innate differences between all members. However, if in impurity all are equal, but they are not alike, can you label any sort of difference as good or bad? This thickens the plot.

History has brought us many examples where this chase for purity has turned inhuman and deadly. Puritans destroying all elements of difference, chasing "witches" in Salem in 1692, Holocaust under the lead of Hitler in Europe in the middle of the 20th century... and just last summer a mind broken Norwegian murdered 77 people thinking he was defending his nation against the threat of "multiculturalism". How many other chases of purity have we known of that have nearly destroyed people, cities, countries or even entire cultures? Has the chase in the name of purity also tried to brutally choke old religions and names of the Divine for the power thirst of the newer ones?

Purity is safe, is controlable, for haven't we as a civilization grown and learned by sharing thoughts and skills, learned astuces and crafts? Numbers, maths, languages, letters, philosophy, views of the world, medicine, astronomy... how many of these would be known to all of us if it weren't for the sharing, the mixing, the blessing of multiculturality?

Purity, in my eyes, is a flaw, a severe lack of richness, a sad plainness, a sign of inhumanity all of us should stay away from.