Sunday, March 27, 2011

When the killing time comes (#786)

When the killing time comes, I heard this line in a cowboy movie once and unfortunately it is still true today. I personally advocate for no killing time, however no one listens and heeds me. The reality of life in this era of ours is that people kill people for reasons that have brute behavior as it's intent. Those who must kill to stop the brute behavior are also forced to do so against high principled ideals. I find myself having faced the moral and ethical dilemma of, is any killing right? No it isn't. But in those cases I must live with the wrong of an action to stop the worse wrong from continuing. It all comes back to will I defend myself and others for the sake of not letting someone else kill them and/or myself. How utterly unfortunate to have to make that kind of decision, yet in today's world that decision is precisely the one we as a nation and a species are being forced to make. There are forces within our species who have no conscious about killing and some of them are in positions of high power. Our society is continuing to evolve and it is at a point where the best of our society is being tested by those who are the worst of it. If killing to keep from being killed is the recourse then the guilt ridden duty of having to kill must rest on our shoulders as we bear the circumstance of it. Our past history is fraught with despicable events, regardless, we must not abide any actions of our species that actions brutish behavior toward ourselves without an appropriate response. When the killing time comes is a phrase that I hope future generations must never have to know. Yet for now it is our comprehension in ways that still anger and revolt decent beings against brutish and dishonorable ones.

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