Friday, May 13, 2005

It's Just the Way it Is

War, the Death Penalty.

They exist because a certain group of people enjoy killing.

There is no other explanation.

The only things human beings do are the things that they want to do. So they do them.

If people did not like to kill, then they wouldn't.

When I was a child, many boys loved to play war. It was fun for them.

There are men who, in their hearts, look forward to a career in the military. They may say it is for the protection of our country. But ultimately, they want to invade and kill.

In some primitive cultures, if a member of a tribe commits a crime, the punishment is simply that the perpetrator is ignored by the rest of the tribe. No retribution. And this is punishment enough.

But in most cultures, there is a certain love of punishment.
And in many cultures, there is a certain desire for aggression and killing.

We live in such a culture.

Have a nice day.

3 comments:

Dan said...

Where isn't this the culture? Is it the nature of man?

The cultures that seem to embrace this mentality less so are the ones that kicked ass for a while and then lost big time and decided a diet of working too hard and killing their neighbors wasn't all it's cracked up to be.

So, we either move to Italy or be content that eventually the Barbarians will overrun us and we'll all be better off eating garlicky olive oiled pasta.

Until then, keep Blogging!

Todd HellsKitchen said...

Have a nice day, yourself!

Todd HellsKitchen said...

Oh, and thanks for the Huffington link... I was wondering where she was. I heard she had started a blog, but I didn't have the URL.