Ethical Murder

All depends on

Who

Is doing the

Murdering




Like the Michael Angelo depiction

Of the hand of man reaching

To touch the hand of God

Which is always infinitely

Halfway there, never touching

So too is the struggle to

Grasp understanding of

The above oxymoron



Ethical Murder



It does not seem plausible since both words

Have wide ranging interpretations and uses

Ethics change based on circumstances as when

One might steal bread to feed their family

Which would be unethical unless the alternative is

That not acquiring the bread would cause starvation

And the death could be considered 4th degree murder

Right off the bat interpretations get kinda tricky

As in right now I am murdering the English language

And yet no words in this post have been harmed





Unfortunately we are all guilty

It is just a matter of degrees

Of complicity and complacency

All depends on how it is looked at




The collective does not seem to mind

When tax dollars are used in their name

To hire mercenaries paid to murder

Fellow human beings no threat to themselves

In the alleged name of freedom and democracy

Because………get this……..it feels patriotic



“People have bugged me in the States, people said:

“Hey, the war made us feel better about ourselves” “Really?” Who are these people with such low self-esteem, …they need a war to feel better about themselves?

I saw them on the news waving their flags. Can I recommend that instead of a war to feel better about yourselves, perhaps… …sit-ups, maybe a fruit-cup, six to eight glasses of water a day.

I’m not telling you how to live, I’m just recommending a perhaps better way to feel better about yourself. And we can avoid the conflagration, ha, ha, ha… Merely a suggestion. Take a tip?”

– Bill Hicks

“Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you’ve never met.

All of a sudden you take pride in accomplishments you had no part in whatsoever. If you’re American you’ll go, ‘Fuck the French. If we hadn’t saved their asses in World War II, they’d be speaking German right now.’

And you go, ‘Oh, was that us?’ Was that me and you, Tommy? We saved the French? Jesus. I know I blacked out a little after that fourth shot of Jägermeister last night, but I don’t remember…

//

I don’t remember saving the French at all. I went through the last ten calls on my cell phone and there’s nothing from the French, looking for muscle on a project.

I checked my pants; there’s no mud stains on the knees from when we were garroting Krauts in the trenches at Verdun.

I think *we* didn’t do anything, but watch sports bloopers while we got hammered. I think *we* should shut the fuck up. It’s silly, all the stuff.

Tradition and heritage, it’s dead people’s baggage, quit carrying it.

Did you make it up?”

“No it was passed on to me”

“Pass it back”

– Doug Stanhope



Bravado, fear and self-esteem combined

To ignore our actual personal involvement

In the death of bipedal earthling artists

Because it is not technically ourselves

Murdering ourselves, it is us in disguise

Wearing camouflage, fatigues and helmets

In the alleged name of freedom and democracy

Or “protecting” “our” allies even though

Their behavior is as bad as the “enemies”

Which is ignored because it is now an

Us against them sickening scenario



How is it not completely glaringly obvious that

We are all on the same side / team / spaceship

To do everything we can to stop ethical murder



“Look at what we kill. Mosquitoes and flies, because they’re pests! Lions and tigers, because it’s fun!

Chickens and pigs, because we’re hungry. Pheasants and quail, because it’s fun, and we’re hungry.

And people! We kill people, because they’re pests… and it’s fun!

//

So at best, the sanctity of life is kind of a selective thing. We get to choose which forms of life we feel are sacred, and we get to kill the rest.

Pretty neat deal, huh? You know how we got it? We made the whole fucking thing up!

Made it up, the same way we made up the death penalty. We made them both up, the sanctity of life and the death penalty.

Aren’t we versatile?!”

– George Carlin



Exodus 20:13 “You shall not murder”


Ooopsie


“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”


– Angelo Devlin



With the help of Bill, Doug and George, I am trying to kill it.