well, i'm feeling much better. there were many interesting discussions at work today, ranging from thoughts on capital punishment to advocating more gun ownership.
i don't have it in my heart to wish harm on anyone. i don't see what the obsession is with returning the same or greater violence on those that bring it to you. i feel something is seriously wrong when a kid that young feels that mugging someone is the best alternative to any number of things that he could have been doing on a saturday afternoon.
more than anything, i'm thoroughly depressed i live in a world where such things happen.
i've sat in my armchair and observed the conflicts in the world that involve impersonal masses of people. to have this thing happen to me made my thoughts on such violence hyper-real and completely vivid.
in the end, all he stole materially was some gasoline. perhaps it's a stupid analogy to leap forward and compare it to the war, but on some level, it's all the same: petty, cowardly, and completely useless.
the thing that troubles me the most is that i wonder if he needed to steal at all. and that's a sad thing to have to ponder in this country. how does this choice become presentable and acceptable to someone? what were his circumstances?
why? for fuck's sake, why?
i don't have it in my heart to wish harm on anyone. i don't see what the obsession is with returning the same or greater violence on those that bring it to you. i feel something is seriously wrong when a kid that young feels that mugging someone is the best alternative to any number of things that he could have been doing on a saturday afternoon.
more than anything, i'm thoroughly depressed i live in a world where such things happen.
i've sat in my armchair and observed the conflicts in the world that involve impersonal masses of people. to have this thing happen to me made my thoughts on such violence hyper-real and completely vivid.
in the end, all he stole materially was some gasoline. perhaps it's a stupid analogy to leap forward and compare it to the war, but on some level, it's all the same: petty, cowardly, and completely useless.
the thing that troubles me the most is that i wonder if he needed to steal at all. and that's a sad thing to have to ponder in this country. how does this choice become presentable and acceptable to someone? what were his circumstances?
why? for fuck's sake, why?
boychucker:
Hope you had a good Thanksgiving and your day is going better than it did a couple of days ago.
last_firstborn:
I hear ya man....I hear ya. I often ask myself the same questions why. But no worries, there's still some good people left. 