To Kill or Not To Kill
Welcome, Devotees!
As I sit here in the comfortable Great Green Recliner, I watch many forms of Death and Destruction. Unfortunately, Man-Killing-Man is a prominent form of death on our world.
There are many reasons to kill another human, but all fall into one of five basic categories: 1) In Self defense or defense of Others, 2) Accidentally, 3) In Declared Combat, 4) For the Protection of the Community, or 5) The Murder of Another. In the first four, the person doing the killing is innocent of a crime. In the fifth case, Murder, the killer is guilty and subject to the punishments of the community's law.
When a person finds that the only way to deal with a problem is to kill another person, without constraint of law, that person is a Murderer, plain and simple. I disregard any watering down of this, as lawyers are apt to, by using "Manslaughter" or various degrees of Murder, to charge an individual. Murder is Murder. Killing is Killing. If you take a life needlessly, yours should be forfeit, without exception. No time spent on "Death Row", watching cable TV all day at the tax-payer's expense. I'll give you one appeal, then six months to get your affairs in order. Then, on the one-year anniversary of your conviction, you are put to death. Done and over with. No more burden on the tax payers for your sins.
Killing is a powerful thing. You take away all that a person is, and all that they may become. In some cases, you can end an entire family blood-line in the act. This is why God took the act of Murder so seriously as to include it in the Ten Commandments.
As a parent, I can guarantee that if I have to kill to protect my kids, I will. I won't even think about it. I will kill the son-of-a-bitch! No if's, and's, or but's about it. The greatest gift you can give your children is the gift of absolute protection while they are the most vulnerable.
Recently I had a conversation with a mother who defined herself as a pacifist. She defiantly explained to me that there was never a justification for killing another human, no matter what that person had done. I turned the tables on her with this. I told her I'll give her a gun, then put another to her son's head. I told her in three seconds I am going to kill him if she didn't kill me first. I counted one, two, three, and then went "BANG!". I told her her son was now dead and it was her fault. She would have to live with that the rest of her life. She said to me that if it was God's will, then so be it. I replied that God's will was for her to have a gun in her hand at that moment and to defend her child's life. His life was not her's to decide. What she would have done, letting her son die, was selfish beyond all reason or belief. I told her to her face that she was a worthless parent, unfit to have children. If you would not kill to protect your children then you should not be allowed to have children. God has a very special place reserved in Hell for people that kill children, or by their inactions allow a child to be harmed or killed. I know they will all burn in Hell for all eternity, the Shits!
I have killed. I have fought in combat and killed the enemy, as defined by my government. This is an acceptable form of killing, both lawfully and Biblically. I have no problem living with this. I would have no problem living with killing while defending myself, my family, or others in need. Nor should any of you. The courage to kill in defense of others has to be admired. Not many can admit they would, or could, pull the trigger if the time came. They just have to act decisively if the moment was ever upon them, or someone they love will die.
Today's world is full of fictional depictions of death and killing that have made us numb to the fragility of our mortality. The 24-hour news of death and destruction adds to this unfeeling we have towards our own deaths. We accept it as a way of life on this turbulent world with such indifference that depictions of sex are dirtier than murder! Where are we that the act of physical love-making between adults is taboo, and the act of physical slaughter of others passe? God would rather us be making love, I'm sure!
And so another monoblogue has run its course, my minions. I hope I have stirred your little gray cells into action once again.
Fare well!
As I sit here in the comfortable Great Green Recliner, I watch many forms of Death and Destruction. Unfortunately, Man-Killing-Man is a prominent form of death on our world.
There are many reasons to kill another human, but all fall into one of five basic categories: 1) In Self defense or defense of Others, 2) Accidentally, 3) In Declared Combat, 4) For the Protection of the Community, or 5) The Murder of Another. In the first four, the person doing the killing is innocent of a crime. In the fifth case, Murder, the killer is guilty and subject to the punishments of the community's law.
When a person finds that the only way to deal with a problem is to kill another person, without constraint of law, that person is a Murderer, plain and simple. I disregard any watering down of this, as lawyers are apt to, by using "Manslaughter" or various degrees of Murder, to charge an individual. Murder is Murder. Killing is Killing. If you take a life needlessly, yours should be forfeit, without exception. No time spent on "Death Row", watching cable TV all day at the tax-payer's expense. I'll give you one appeal, then six months to get your affairs in order. Then, on the one-year anniversary of your conviction, you are put to death. Done and over with. No more burden on the tax payers for your sins.
Killing is a powerful thing. You take away all that a person is, and all that they may become. In some cases, you can end an entire family blood-line in the act. This is why God took the act of Murder so seriously as to include it in the Ten Commandments.
As a parent, I can guarantee that if I have to kill to protect my kids, I will. I won't even think about it. I will kill the son-of-a-bitch! No if's, and's, or but's about it. The greatest gift you can give your children is the gift of absolute protection while they are the most vulnerable.
Recently I had a conversation with a mother who defined herself as a pacifist. She defiantly explained to me that there was never a justification for killing another human, no matter what that person had done. I turned the tables on her with this. I told her I'll give her a gun, then put another to her son's head. I told her in three seconds I am going to kill him if she didn't kill me first. I counted one, two, three, and then went "BANG!". I told her her son was now dead and it was her fault. She would have to live with that the rest of her life. She said to me that if it was God's will, then so be it. I replied that God's will was for her to have a gun in her hand at that moment and to defend her child's life. His life was not her's to decide. What she would have done, letting her son die, was selfish beyond all reason or belief. I told her to her face that she was a worthless parent, unfit to have children. If you would not kill to protect your children then you should not be allowed to have children. God has a very special place reserved in Hell for people that kill children, or by their inactions allow a child to be harmed or killed. I know they will all burn in Hell for all eternity, the Shits!
I have killed. I have fought in combat and killed the enemy, as defined by my government. This is an acceptable form of killing, both lawfully and Biblically. I have no problem living with this. I would have no problem living with killing while defending myself, my family, or others in need. Nor should any of you. The courage to kill in defense of others has to be admired. Not many can admit they would, or could, pull the trigger if the time came. They just have to act decisively if the moment was ever upon them, or someone they love will die.
Today's world is full of fictional depictions of death and killing that have made us numb to the fragility of our mortality. The 24-hour news of death and destruction adds to this unfeeling we have towards our own deaths. We accept it as a way of life on this turbulent world with such indifference that depictions of sex are dirtier than murder! Where are we that the act of physical love-making between adults is taboo, and the act of physical slaughter of others passe? God would rather us be making love, I'm sure!
And so another monoblogue has run its course, my minions. I hope I have stirred your little gray cells into action once again.
Fare well!
posted by B.R.Dailey | 5:52 PM
1 Comments:
It’s interesting to see that in Europe the tables are turned and violence in film is more taboo than sexuality. The original “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” for example was banned in the UK for 25 years. Now that's persistence.
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