Today's Topic - "Animals"
Brian and Terry - hats off to you both for living an idealistic life -- or at least thinking idealistic thoughts. However, the fact is that war is a very natural occurrence. Let's not forget that we are all just animals. Not unlike tigers, bears, lions, etc ... animals that routinely hunt, kill and defend their territory with a bloody vengeance. Some would argue that we, as a species, are more advanced and shouldn't stoop to that level of debauchery. More advanced, yes, but this only means that we are able to devise better ways to kill each other. We don't have to maul people to death - we can kill with heat seeking missiles and unmanned drones. The fact is that we are always at war - even when no war has been declared. We are at war with each other. We can't help but behave like animals. Each and everyday thousands of men beat and rape thousands of women ... thousands of parents whip thousands of children ... thousands of men and women murder thousands of other men and women. Alcoholics and suicidal people are at war with themselves. Animals acting like animals. To protest war - or to take an adversative stance to an impending war - just ain't natural. In the good old days pacifists would have been deleted by something called natural selection. Not anymore. Too many laws. Please, if you don't want to act like a human being - cut off your nuts and schedule a lobotomy ... and leave the rest of us alone. We got some killing to do.
