STATE SANCTIONED KILLINGS
It is entirely likely that far more people have been killed or injured by persons whom they do not know, than by persons that are known to them. War is one example of this phenomenon in which none of the opposing combatants knows any of the others. Rather war's mass killings are impersonal, unemotional, methodical, and legal. Neither are such killings ever sinful.
Killing therefore has very little to do with emotions or personal grudges. Most killings, historically, are for hire, like paid soldiers or sailors or assassins. Or for spoils and profits, occasionally for sport by privileged persons over those whom they are advantaged and protected against.
Most mass killings, therefore, are sanctioned by law, religion, custom.
Non-sanctioned killings are crimes.
Those who refuse to engage in any sanctioned killings are imprisoned, themselves as was heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, who said, famously, "Ain't no Viet Cong ever called me nigger!" when refusing induction into the United States' Armed Forces in the 1960s.
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
STATE-SANCTIONED KILLINGS
STATE SANCTIONED KILLINGS
It is entirely likely that far more people have been killed or injured by persons whom they do not know, than by persons that are known to them. War is one example of this phenomenon in which none of the opposing combatants knows any of the others. Rather war's mass killings are impersonal, unemotional, methodical, and legal. Neither are such killings ever sinful.
Killing therefore has very little to do with emotions or personal grudges. Most killings, historically, are for hire, like paid soldiers or sailors or assassins. Or for spoils and profits, occasionally for sport by privileged persons over those whom they are advantaged and protected against.
Most mass killings, therefore, are sanctioned by law, religion, custom.
Non-sanctioned killings are crimes.
Those who refuse to engage in any sanctioned killings are imprisoned, themselves as was heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, who said, famously, "Ain't no Viet Cong ever called me nigger!" when refusing induction into the United States' Armed Forces in the 1960s.