Deb, all I can say is this. A sort of action philosophy comment.
If someone killed you (Deb), I would kill them.
Shoot em from short range, gouge their windpipe with an Emerson CQC, or
whatever. I would carry out the act.
That's life. It's a natural, built in response. It's no more
over-exciting, debateable, or less-obvious than going to the toilet, eating
meat, having sexual intercourse, growing hair, talking too much in a group
to project your personality or monkeys grooming. There isn't even any hate
or passion involved. If someon is a .. defective unit .. if someone is so
'defective' as to 'kill'Deb' or 'kill brother', ordinary humans naturally
try to extinguish them.
I suppose the whole capital punishment thing is a sort of perverted social,
um, implementation of this natural quick-moment reaction.
I am curious as to how you feel .. no, what you would do .. if someone
killed 'me' so to speak, or say your sister, auntie, whatever.
>I'm
>fully aware of the philosophical reasoning behind the "right to bear
>arms" (I don't necessarily agree with it, but I understand it.)
I think it's all got to do with fear of death.
You have two choices in life ..
(1) a possibly short, brutal, life full of adversity, challenge, forces
acting against you, unperdictability .. and unboudned internal freedom ..
or
(2) safety and long life accompanied by constant fear of death / pain /
rejection by the girl in the coffee shop etc.
Why is Braveheart such a good movie ? Obviously, only a handful of people
have to make the above choice in a LITERAL "life or death" sense. But we
ALL, constantly have to choose between those two paths. Whether it's how
you react to trying to talk to someone of the opposite sex, how you deal
with your parents as you leave adolesence, what sort of job or career you
choose, and so on.
The archetype of a warrior is nothing more exciting than a symbol of an
entity that totally chooses path A. All warrior stories (ie, almost all
stories) is this.
'All men die, not all men truly live' 'Give me death or give me liberty'
- all quote from scottish-americans <;
As a roman emperor said "you cant defeat these people [the celts], because
they dont know when they're defeated".
>But having been in a place with that
>many people, that many firearms, and that much beer -- well, that
>is on my 'top 5 times when I was so scared that I almost panicked'
>list.
Does it have anything to do with the guns? If you were at the world police
exposition, and there were 75,000 policewomen all with 9mm guns, how would
you feel? What about at a military parade with a thousand soldiers?
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