In a million years, I could never picture myself

[Skidmore]

planning or conspiring to order the death of one person, let alone thousands. If required to even order the death of another, I would refuse. The only circumstance I could think in which I could come close to killing someone would be to protect my family. It would have to be extreme and very threatening. I don't understand these people who seek violence as the first solution, who are willing to kill so many because they don't agree with them or have something they covet. I don't get the "glass'm" types.

Sometimes it feels as if we are living in an alternate universe of some sort.

[kdmorris]

1. Me, either!!

I agree wholeheartedly.

[livvy]

2. I don't get it either.

I sobbed (literally) once when a robin flew into my windshield while I was driving on the freeway. I can still see the exact moment that it happened. Another time a squirrel committed suicide under the wheels of my car. I entered my place of work in tears again, and still today I can replay that movie, his moment of indecision, then turning to go back up the lawn, and that sudden unexplained change of course, when it was too late for me to avoid hitting him, even though I had slowed way down waiting for him to decide which way he was going to go.

How anyone can live comfortably with themselves after they have planned and ordered the death of fellow citizens of this planet is beyond me.

If in a position of being ordered to do such deeds, or placed in a me or them situation, it would be difficult enough to deal with, but at least a person would have a sense of duty, or their right to life to justify and help them cope with what has transpired.

To sit in a position of safety, with no or little threat to you or your country apparent, and to order such actions is indefensible and uncivilized. It is also cowardly, for after all, you are not the one who actually has to look your "enemy" in the eye, and see them as a mirror image of yourself.

[shadowknows69]

3. Some people can supress the lizard brain

and some can't. I think there is an actual genetic disposition to violence or not. It's the only thing that makes sense of it. Not saying we should work to find and eliminate this "evil" gene because that opens too many doors. People wanting to elimnate the "gay" gene or the "fat" gene or the "peaceful" gene. I don't think we're anywhere near mature enough as a species for some of the things we are able to do or potentially do with genetic engineering.

[Toots]

4. They live in a TV world where death and destruction are entertainment

They are divorced from reality because they have never experience such things. That is why they vote Republican, they are divorced from reality..

[Zywiec]

5. Thank goodness General George Washington was able to do it. n/t

[bryant69]

6. Well to many of them they do think they are threatened

So that justifies the violence.

Another thing is that Iranians and Iraqis aren't real people like you and me, and so it's ok if they suffer. Heck, even U.S. troops aren't really "our" people. Very few millionaires kids there.

Bryant
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