The question that Dana faced in the story of Kindred is one of the most difficult questions anyone could ever face. Was she selfish in killing Rufuse, leaving the slaves on the plantation to look fate in the eyes? Those eyes had to be nothing short of cold, un-wanting, and unfamiliar. Look at what was staring Dana in the face though, a life she was not born into, and an ideology she had no input in. After all, she was born free; allowed to make the decisions that she wanted to, because she was human. The difference between the two relationships lies within who allowed the two different perspectives to become evident. Society controlled the outcome of the slaves in the antebellum south, while there was a supernatural element involved in Dana's slavery, yet they both were intermingled.

Fear must be the underlying issue here, what else could allow for one human to treat another like dirt. Fear causes many of us to do irrational things. It causes us to undermine one another, throw each other under a bus, and abandoned our philosophies. It de-evolutionizes us to a creature not worth mentioning.

Slowly, as a human race, we have realized our faults. We have set up precautions to protect ourselves from that which can cause the most harm to ourselves. Sadly that is us. From a League of Nations to a United Nations, we have established a safeguard from ourselves. The ultimate goal is to exhale as a whole, erase the nations, the league, and the states, and just be united.

Maybe we can eventually all exhale as one soon.