Redeeming Qualities Found in Humanity

NaPoWriMo 2025, Day 13

The following is a list of things submitted by witnesses, offered as evidence of goodness found among humans as a way to make the case that they are not merely voracious parasites that will consume and destroy everything they encounter, including each other.

1) poetry
2) music
3) blood donations
4) organ transplants
5) men who reject patriarchy and patriarchal masculinity
6) women who reject patriarchy and patriarchal masculinity
7) people who reject the mythical gender binary
8) people who put their comfort and safety on the line for justice
9) herbal tea
10) people who work for crisis lines
11) people who risk or give their life to save another
12) vegans
13) activists who persist every day without seeing the change they are working for
14) good books
15) selfless love that doesn’t keep score
16) animals who love their humans
17) public libraries