I just read a story about a killer being executed in the USA. The killer shot a man who helped him when his car broke down. The killer claimed he felt euphoric when he killed because he had been tormented as a child and felt he had got back.
But he got back at somebody else.
Somebody who was innocent.
This happens all the time.
You read court cases where the counsel for the defence says that the accused had an unhappy childhood.
They do the same to others.
The cycle goes on and on.
It would stop if the victims could say to themselves, if the person who hurt me had said, the buck stops here, I would not have been hurt.
So I have read another classic case of an angry person kicking the nearest dog or human about something which happened somewhere else years ago. The killer, who saw himself as a victim, should have relieved his anger at the world by shooting an inanimate target to get rid of his aggression, but not used the target practise as a practise for killing somebody.
The shooter should have left the gun at the shooting gallery. Leave behind the battle and the imaginary victim. He should have had therapy and sworn never to take out his anger on a person who was innocent as he once was as a child. The aggression should be at the aggressor, the photo of the parent who tormented the child (ideally OK if already dead) or some other dead person. But the angry shooter should promise himself and the world that his target would never be somebody who had tried to help him.
The same thing happens with countries.
Wars escalate.
The original problem is long forgotten.
The people are all simply programmed to fight the nearest person.
In the long run we are all dead - but trouble comes much faster and sooner if you go out looking for a fight.
But he got back at somebody else.
Somebody who was innocent.
This happens all the time.
You read court cases where the counsel for the defence says that the accused had an unhappy childhood.
They do the same to others.
The cycle goes on and on.
It would stop if the victims could say to themselves, if the person who hurt me had said, the buck stops here, I would not have been hurt.
So I have read another classic case of an angry person kicking the nearest dog or human about something which happened somewhere else years ago. The killer, who saw himself as a victim, should have relieved his anger at the world by shooting an inanimate target to get rid of his aggression, but not used the target practise as a practise for killing somebody.
The shooter should have left the gun at the shooting gallery. Leave behind the battle and the imaginary victim. He should have had therapy and sworn never to take out his anger on a person who was innocent as he once was as a child. The aggression should be at the aggressor, the photo of the parent who tormented the child (ideally OK if already dead) or some other dead person. But the angry shooter should promise himself and the world that his target would never be somebody who had tried to help him.
The same thing happens with countries.
Wars escalate.
The original problem is long forgotten.
The people are all simply programmed to fight the nearest person.
In the long run we are all dead - but trouble comes much faster and sooner if you go out looking for a fight.
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