Just read about a sniper killing a ‘target’ far far away.
What is worse? Calling a living being a target? Killing a target?
It is no mystery as to why humans embrace killing. They have too. They have to kill to defend, advance, survive. No matter what society, what moment or timeline. Humans have to kill.
Even the body of a human kills itself. It ages, decays, and parts of the body feeds upon other parts of the body.
No, it is no mystery as to why humans kill. They have too. But. (but, but, but, I hate the word but. it is a cop out, an easy way to transition to what really needs to be said without all the other bullshit. so, no ‘but’)
Humans have to kill AND they must learn to respect that of what they kill…
Respect. Honor. Revere.
Did the sniper respect or honor the target destroyed? Or did the sniper smile and with a gluttonous ambition seek more targets? A never ending appetite for death.
Hunters who take the life of game to feed themselves, family, or others AND give respect for that which succumbed to the actions taken, they understand what is written.
Respect. What do humans respect?
More importantly though, humans advanced in age to be called old often make a transition from embracing killing to respecting that which is killed. Progress? Hope? Maybe.
It is the children though which amaze me. To watch a child tear the legs off a spider for no other reason than to enjoy doing it, this is the scary part for the observer. Why?
Why would a child kill a harmless bird with a BB gun just to watch a bird die?
Is it training for future killing? Is it hardwired into the young human brain?
Lately to watch the youth partake and greatly enjoy bloody video games.
I once watched two eight year old boys laugh and giggle as they killed policemen and old ladies in a video game. Were they future snipers for a military? Maybe they were grooming themselves to be abortion doctors or men who impregnate women and then demand death for the child?
Lots to debate and think about and yet again, not really. Humans by nature are true highly evolved killers of everything from themselves to entire planets.
Now IF more humans could come to respect that of which they destroy then at least killing could be done with some form of dignity. Maybe even reach the point where alternative actions could be taken to save life instead of life being labeled, ‘target’.
