On the flipside of the thing I posted - I've read a number of accounts where a soldier almost kills an enemy, and then after the war they meet again and become friends.
I've read those too.
I just think we (as a society maybe? not tommyrot in particular) have gotten too a point where we too easily say "well, that's war". We know its wrong to kill, right? We're taught that from diapers. And I think its actually true and not some sort of brainwashing.
Then we end up in a situation where they say "NOW you can kill. In fact you SHOULD. This isn't what we were talking about..." which I suspect is a big effing lie.
Because as soon as you personalize someone (you loved the author) or you see their face across a trench on Christmas or you meet them fifty years later at a veterans thing their humanity comes back the lie is revealed. No, its not alright to kill.
Is it better to kill than be killed? Yes. Better to kill an intruder than let them kill your mother? Yes. But you're still doing a wrong thing. You're left with nothing but bad choices and making the better bad choice. You're human and the situation is fucked and you're making due... but sometimes I think we (as a society? a species?) go there too easily.
It's nice by me - I've got the door propped open. We're what, 50 miles? Less?
Scrappy, I'm so sorry. I will be holding you and your family in my thoughts.
brenda, it's nice here now too - I'm talking about a front that's going to be moving through tomorrow night and bringing lots of snow.
And you know doggy humping isn't necessarily a sexual thing, it can just be a way to assert dominance.
Unless someone is in heat, it's all dominance.
The 'ew, they're GAY!' thing in the park is just tedious. I'm working toward not letting it bug me because, really?, who cares. But it so often seems like a really sad reflection of people's internal experience...and or just plain ignorance.
/pet-no pun intended-peeve
Unless someone is in heat, it's all dominance.
Well, my dog's pre-snipping thing for tall blonds was most definitely sexual.
I just think we (as a society maybe? not tommyrot in particular) have gotten too a point where we too easily say "well, that's war".
You think that's more true now than in the past? Because I'd say the trend goes the other way.
Beats me.
I've only been alive for
::mumble::
years. In my lifetime I feel it is worse at the moment than it was previously. It's certainly encouraged when countries are at war. It's probably cyclical like damn near everything else?
Timelies all!
Scrappy, I'm sorry. Healing~ma sent.
