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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Daniel Butler: [QB] 1) People in the military are trained to kill. I don't care what your original pyschological outlook; that *has* to come out at some point. Again, I'm not saying it was right, but who knows? Maybe it's not some un-empathetic psycho sickwad who wanted to toss a puppy off a cliff. Maybe it's a symptom of a massive incipient guilt complex for having killed people. I know there are members of the military on this board and I don't intend any offense - I don't know most of you well on a personal level so I couldn't intend offense even if I intended to intend offense, so to speak. But I for one would be utterly destroyed if I killed another human being, even in warfare. Maybe I'm weak, maybe I'm a pacifist, maybe I'm even wrong about it. 2) A lot of you seem to be saying that it's worse to hurt an animal because it doesn't understand. Most of my life I've been taught it's worse to hurt a person because they *do* understand. Is what side of the camp you're on about that issue simply a random, arbitrary bias or what? I mean which viewpoint is right? I honestly don't know. 3) Meh. My friend talks a lot about the so-called "New World Order" that's taking over the world with surveillance cameras and Big Government. Hey, you know, we spent most of our history living in a primate social structure which evolved into fairly totalitarian monarchies (insofar as the technology level and sociology allowed at the time) for thousands of years until democracy became widespread. The rich, noble, powerful, whatever, have *always* ruled us harshly. The difference is, most people used to be serfs or outright slaves; now that we *think* we're free, any oppression is reacted to as though the world is coming to a dark Orwellian end. I really think it's obvious that our world came from a dark Orwellian [i]beginning[/i] - if they'd had cameras and the Internet in 500AD it would be the most fascist dystopia you could imagine. And instead of meeting in board rooms and schmoozing over golf, the ones in power would be doing it right out in the open at the banquet table while the rest of us poured their drinks. In fact, that's still what we're doing, it's just that we pretend otherwise, even fooling ourselves. ...Kay that was a hell of a lot more than I meant to type, but what the hell. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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