Luca1369
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I just learned of the execution of convicted cop-killer Troy Davis at the Georgia Diagnostic Center in Jackson, Georgia. I?m not going to comment on his guilt or innocence, I doubt it will ever be certain in everybody?s minds. But, I do regret that as a species we humans continue to kill people to show people that killing people is wrong.
Actually I have mixed emotions on this. On the one hand I would fragmentize the body of anyone who harmed someone I loved. Yet on the other hand I do not grok why the government of the people deems it has the right to end the life of another human.
Perhaps it is because it seems so impersonal. That we must create an entire industry dedicated to what is nothing less than murder. People are paid to kill people. Legal hit men. Their zeal so great that some of those executed were innocent, lost in the process, convicted by an abundance of evidence that may later be found to be circumstantial or even worse, fabricated. The execution of one innocent individual renders the whole concept of state controlled capital punishment worthless and immoral. What is worse is that there is no end to the humans who delight in filling the positions required of such an industry.
Where have we erred as a species? We have made great technological advances. We are on the verge of stellar exploration. Yet as I look at our basic human nature I see little more than club-wielding Neanderthals in Armani suits. We are not that far from our ancestors in our basic nature. We fight and kill each other for nearly any reason that we can conjure. We hate so easily, but upon what is our hatred based? Culture? Race? Economic standing? What name someone calls their chosen God? Yes, our chosen Gods?nearly all of whom preach love and peace which we ignore because of our fanatic desire to propagate these same Gods by war and death.
I have no answer. Only time will tell if we can truly evolve and become a species of worth. I also have to wonder about those of us who ponder the reasons that extra-terrestrials, who are thought to visit us on a regular basis, do not open their arms and welcome us into some sort of universal brotherhood. I have to laugh at this. Who would want us? We can?t get along with a human of a different faith or ethnic background, yet we kid ourselves that we can be brothers to creatures that may not be of the same chemical makeup as ourselves.
Besides, who would want us? Would they want their daughters to marry one of us?
Actually I have mixed emotions on this. On the one hand I would fragmentize the body of anyone who harmed someone I loved. Yet on the other hand I do not grok why the government of the people deems it has the right to end the life of another human.
Perhaps it is because it seems so impersonal. That we must create an entire industry dedicated to what is nothing less than murder. People are paid to kill people. Legal hit men. Their zeal so great that some of those executed were innocent, lost in the process, convicted by an abundance of evidence that may later be found to be circumstantial or even worse, fabricated. The execution of one innocent individual renders the whole concept of state controlled capital punishment worthless and immoral. What is worse is that there is no end to the humans who delight in filling the positions required of such an industry.
Where have we erred as a species? We have made great technological advances. We are on the verge of stellar exploration. Yet as I look at our basic human nature I see little more than club-wielding Neanderthals in Armani suits. We are not that far from our ancestors in our basic nature. We fight and kill each other for nearly any reason that we can conjure. We hate so easily, but upon what is our hatred based? Culture? Race? Economic standing? What name someone calls their chosen God? Yes, our chosen Gods?nearly all of whom preach love and peace which we ignore because of our fanatic desire to propagate these same Gods by war and death.
I have no answer. Only time will tell if we can truly evolve and become a species of worth. I also have to wonder about those of us who ponder the reasons that extra-terrestrials, who are thought to visit us on a regular basis, do not open their arms and welcome us into some sort of universal brotherhood. I have to laugh at this. Who would want us? We can?t get along with a human of a different faith or ethnic background, yet we kid ourselves that we can be brothers to creatures that may not be of the same chemical makeup as ourselves.
Besides, who would want us? Would they want their daughters to marry one of us?
