Born to Kill?
Ever hear of a newborn baby with a weapon clutched in its tiny hand? We must learn why to kill and how to kill other human beings. If killing were instinctive, our species would either be extinct by now or substantially depleted. Were it natural, there would be neither PTSD nor suicides.
Here is what a former Army ranger had to say about the crucial role of military training in learning to kill: "Military training is fundamentally an exercise in overcoming a fear of killing another human."33 This enterprising ranger subsequently formed a consulting group, "Killology Research Group," a bunch of "Warrior Science Group consultants dedicated to protecting our families and our children and to the strong defense of our country."34 Nothing surprises me anymore.
And that is why I was not surprised to read later how the military came up with the idea to tell its soldiers the Vietnamese were sub-humans so the Vietnamese could be killed without any guilt or remorse. Soldiers were told the Vietnamese were "gooks, slants, slopes, and anything to make the soldiers think the Vietnamese were not humans."35
Think about it. Our government takes our youth, often under privileged and poorly educated, and turns them into killers so that politicians can stay in office and the business drivers of the corpocracy can keep on driving and thriving, not dying.
About War as an Act of Murder
Its First Implication
I have no basis for disputing Albert Einstein, one of the world's most brilliant minds, who claimed that "war is an act of murder." If you agree, are you prepared to accept the implication that the people who promote war, that the people who provide the means for war, and that the people who authorize war are surrogate murderers? And should they not be incarcerated for the rest of their lives as international war criminals instead of being honored?
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