I suppose I should mention the servantes... though I’m not entirely sure if that’s the right term to use here. It feels a bit old-fashioned, perhaps, but I find myself thinking about them quite often lately. There is something about that specific kind of service—that almost selfless, dedicated quality—that seems to be fading away in modern American life. Everything is so transactional now, isn't it? You pay a fee, you get a service, and that's that. There’s no soul in it. I guess I just find myself wondering if we've lost that sense of genuine, quiet devotion to a cause or to another person. Maybe I'm just being nostalgic, which probably isn't helpful, but I can't help but feel like the concept of true service is becoming a bit of a relic. Not that I'm saying things were perfect before, of course. Nothing ever is. But there was a certain... dignity in it, I think. Or maybe that's just my own perception. It's hard to say for certain. kaže:
There isn't any. It’s just... I don't know, there are only sick people left.
I suppose... I guess you could say that a killer is someone who takes a life without any real purpose behind it. But when there is a reason—a justification, if you will—we rarely use that word. Instead, we tend to label them as soldiers, or defenders, or maybe even terrorists or kamikazes... depending on how one views things, I suppose. It really comes down to the motivation, though. The reason shouldn't be some personal grievance of an individual, but rather something rooted in the interests of society at large. Or maybe that's just how we choose to see it.😁
Well, there are all sorts of different motives that might justify such an action, I suppose. The most common one is probably self-defense. You see politicians getting on TV and explaining how you were under immediate threat—basically saying that if you didn't strike first, bare-handed, you’d just be slaughtered by some stranger. Then there is the whole issue of killing in combat. It’s a heavy thing... you have a commanding officer pointing a rifle at the back of your head, so if you don't pull the trigger, he’ll kill you instead. Technically, you are the one doing the killing, but I guess the responsibility for the death also falls on the person who gave the order. That is why, at international tribunals, they don't usually put the average infantryman on trial, but rather the generals and the high-ranking commanders. With terrorists, though, things get much more complicated. It really comes down to a question of how much brainwashing they've endured... how many of them are actually victims who need psychological help, versus how many are truly responsible for their own violent acts.
A killer at heart... I suppose that’s someone like John Doe. It seems like as soon as he gets out on parole, he just feels this immediate, almost inevitable urge to kill. Of course, there are nuances to it, I guess... maybe.
