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Discussions are an important part of our well-functioning society, because they are based on disparities in opinion. Diversity is one of the many things, that makes the human community so special. We have different, often times even detrimental opinions. And this diversity is the motor of our intellectual evolution.
Darwin has described evolution as a result of need, in the natural constellation that is. Fire, houses, and clothes were invented in order to fulfil our bodily needs. Many of these lusts were successfully satiated, some even to the utmost extent. Others we still try to still, with mediocre success. And even others seem entirely impossible to fulfil, at least now.

The human mind needs sustenance, too. Its diet may seem different, but as a matter of fact: Information, knowledge, wisdom and experience are stored chemically, encoded into the very fabric of ourselves. Food in the microcosm.
The ways of the human brain are interesting and not explainable, even with the background knowledge of how it is "supposed" to work. Why do certain things taste the same for almost every human being - sugar, or salt, for example? And why does other food create so much controversy?
If we accept the above: that some things are perceived the same across almost by all humans likewise while other things may seem totally different across the span of human society; one is able to come to a very appealing conclusion:
There are things, morals and opinions, thoughts and wishes, dreams and nightmares, that are the same for us all. All diversity and disparity aside: There must be an inner human core, that has been formed by the previous decades, millenniums and aeons. We are all the same, somewhere, anyways.

Why so much hatred? The human nature, as formed by nature itself, seems destructive, spiteful. Our ability to turn every little disparity, as unimportant as it may seem, into the subject of a potentially violent conflict is remarkable indeed. We want to hurt each other, this is a conclusion that may seem viable given the ongoing struggles world-wide and the continuous conflicts and quarrels.
Are we the motor of our own destruction? Maybe, yes. The human might well be its own murderer. Despite not directly. Greed is the enemy of peace. Everyone's personal wish to obtain power, power over others. This greed is what makes us human, it leads to good and bad things alike.
But the current development does drive the human cartwheel of innovation and expansion head first into a wall. This world is controlled by money and wealth, on the large and on the tiny scale.

And here they are again: Disparities. Disparities not only in opinion, but disparities in possession and wealth. Those that already have a lot strive for more, their hunger after more and more cannot be stilled, while others are left to rot in the dust of nonexistence. This hunt for the most, that leads many - if not all - into a deadly spiral following the path of more and more, will finally be our bane, our arch-nemesis. An enemy, that we helped create. And it can't be stopped. The deadly circle has already begun to spin, and we will slowly but steadily drift of.

Is there really nothing we can do? Stopping the cartwheel is impossible. A dreaded word - impossible - and not really based on facts, but descriptive enough for such a situation. There is but one thing we can do: Jump off. We may not be able to save everyone, especially not those driving the cart on and on towards the open mouth, but we can save ourselves and start again.
Errare humanum est, a statement used well over its reach, a phrase used to hide our discomfort and to use as an excuse for not trying hard enough. But it also bears truth: Only a mistake can lead us to development, only development will lead to new mistakes. We have made a mistake, but making one is not a reason to stop trying, to stop going on. We can overcome even this barrier, just not alone.
The human society must stand together and go on a different hunt: The hunt for our common thread, the very fabric of the human "be". I am, and I want to be. And I will always want to be. And I will always want to fight for my ability to be. But will I ever fight?