Behold v. Beware

I don’t know if any of you know but I work for an up and coming marketing agency. I am a member of the executive board so my job is plan secret visits to the talent that is interested in joining our group, especially since most of them will come to me for approval to use company funds, so I planned a surprise visit with the rest of the executives, to see a young motivational speaker. The boy is only 17 years old and already he is preaching the words of Jim Rohn, a speaker about three or four times his age. He spoke about something i feel is very relevant to this class, human nature. He says that human nature is like a coin; on one side it says behold, and on the other it says beware. When we talk about things like poor children, illegal immigration, the constant black vs. white, it makes me think that people are capable of so many terrible things, toward each other. Then he went on to say if this is how we treat one another then we will never be able to save the environment... Needless to say he impressed us all very much. But he had a very strong relevant point. We treat people as a means to an end, and once we surpass their "usefulness" we discard them.