Paradox.

"The statement below is false."
"The statement above is true."
Paradox. Again--that wonderful, confounding, euphonic term. The logic is endless: if the above statement is true, then the second sentence is false. The second statement is true, which makes the above concept false...ad infinum, turtles all the way down, circular logic. A seemingly pointless couplet, isn't it? Absolutely irrelevant to everyday life, completely unnecessary and useless. Yet even when I stare at the collection of syllables, I can't help but find it relevant to our lives.
Is it right to prevent violence by killing the violent? Can you promote equality between species by raising up one of the two? We all live our own little paradoxes, striving to figure out an answer and finding only more questions, more logic chains repeating on and on until we are consumed by the search for a solution. There may be one; there may not be one, and maybe that's not the point. Maybe it's the question that matters and not the answer, like the old saying that life is a journey and not a destination. By attempting to figure things out we shape ourselves and the groups we are a part of. I guess, then, that the only thing there is to hope for is that people are willing to spend time thinking in circles...