RashyNullPlanet

There is no significant difference between this…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ZWTx-QUj4

…and this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ljYNgLnpxM

The only difference between those two videos is who pays the perpetrators.

In both videos the murderers are obviously dedicated to the task of killing.

In both videos the murderers have abandoned their responsibility to determine right from wrong and are simply following orders from distant others.

In both videos the murderers act without fear of interference from bystanders.

In the first video, the murderers are a mob of men brutalizing a woman who dared violate their ridiculous insane sense of ownership of all women.

In the second video, the murderers are a mob of men brutalizing a mentally handicapped man who dared violate their ridiculous insane sense of self-importance.

In both cases, the murderers have abandoned their consciences, and persist in their brutality despite the obvious murder they’re committing.

The only discernible difference is that the murderers in the first video were a mere mob, and the murderers in the second video were a gaggle of tax-financed cops in “the land of the free, and the home of the brave.”

All those murderers are the worst kind of sub-human zealots. They crave violence and sadism, and they seek someone, anyone, to make their violence and sadism appear legitimate, so they don’t have to think for themselves or answer for their murderous actions. The mob latched onto religion. The cops latched onto worship of law.

Monahan, this week:

“Attached to this letter was the report the officer had filled out. I’d like to say I couldn’t believe it, but in a way, I could. It’s seemingly becoming the norm in America – lies and deliberate distortions on the part of those in power, no matter how much or how little power they actually wield.”

Solzhenitsyn, 1960s:

“The interrogator writes down the deposition himself, translating it into his own language”

I’m horrified by the fact that humans haven’t advanced one moral nanogram in the past 50 years.

Kyle’s “Cutting God in Half” reminded me of this draft of mine that’s been sitting idle for more than a year:

I tend to look at things as “either, or.”

For instance, a woman is either pregnant, or she isn’t. A man is either dead, or he isn’t.

“Either, or” is usually my first test to sort out right from wrong.

Interactions between humans are either voluntary or they’re not. There is no in-between. When you buy something, that’s a voluntary interaction with the seller. When someone steals something from you, that’s an involuntary interaction between you and the thief.

There are only two ways for me, and everyone else, to get something from someone else: trade for it, or steal it.

There are only two ways for me, and everyone else, to interact with other humans: reason or force.

I’ll draw a line on Kyle’s Paper: “gnaws at my life.”

Wendy is absolutely right:

without freedom there is no morality. Only social control.

That’s precisely what Anthony Burgess illustrated in A Clockwork Orange. You owe it to yourself to read the book or watch the movie. It shows exactly where social control is going.

It didn’t take long for that:

400 THOU AT WOODSTOCK FOR NEW-PRESIDENT

It was just a matter of time before someone made that comparison.