It's a slow week in every sense of the word. The union protests are still running strong, but the press and the general public are burning out, and until the U.S. government decides to turn Tripoli into the 9th wonder of the world--the crater of Gaddafi--there'll be nothing exciting coming out of the middle east either.
Because it's a slow week, and my boredom will not allow me to do anything that could possibly entertain any of you without retching, I've decided to have a little fun.
I 'm going to use this rare time I have to myself to promote a theory that I may never get to express otherwise.
I'm a humanist. I believe that beating, clubbing, shooting or burning another living being until they are no longer a living being is the highest crime imaginable. Human beings are a renewable resource, Morgan Freeman is not, Fred Thompson is not, the short kid from my kindergarten class is not. Each individual person is a unique quantity and should avoid all labels like they would avoid flying sawblades.
Humans are unique but this line of thinking isn't, I'm getting to the new and interesting part.
I've always wondered if it is even possible to stop people from killing each other. After all, everyone is against murder and war, but a great many human beings engage in each wholeheartedly, justifying it as we go.
A foregone conclusion of the life we live is that, if we are unlucky enough, one day someone will come along, declare us an infidel, a traitor, an enemy of the state, or some malleable ethnic slur, and then take our lives unceremoniously.
but perhaps it wouldn't be this way if doing such a thing was a little bit difficult
Here's my thought:
6 Rules of Killing
1. From this point on, All acts of murder, execution, and war (police-action, conflict, whatever) must be committed by hand. If you are physically handicapped, you will be allowed to use a small sharpened stone.
2. A killing must be a public event, no killings may occur in private.
3. In order to take a another person's life, you must know their full name, their favorite beverage, one of their dreams or life goals, and one thing that makes them sad.
4. If you choose to kill a person, their death must last a minimum of 18 minutes.
5. all people you have elected to kill will be allowed a final statement if they choose to give one, and you must carry this statement to any of four living individuals that your victim chooses. You will be required to tell these people the way in which your victim was killed.
6. If war is declared, all members of both armies will adhere to all of the above rules. The leaders of each country will have two options to choose from, either they must fight in the wars themselves, or they will be charged with the duty of knowing each casualty's name, favorite beverage, dream, and sorrow and of carrying each casualty's final statement to each of his chosen witnesses alongside their killer.
Some of those rules might sound harsh, but remember that it took 3 men 45 minutes to kill 100,000 people at Hiroshima. These people had stories, passions, goals, and tastes just as I do. If those people truly had to die, they never should have died as labels. They were 100,000 Japanese, when they should have been counted as 1 Setsuko Thurlow, 1 Francis Mitsuo Tomosawa, and so on forever and for all time.
Perhaps if we had to kill People every day instead of nazis and traitors and criminals and enemy combatants and terrorists and communists and gypsies and heretics and spies and monsters, we'd kill less.
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