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February 14th, 2015, 11:44 PM | #20591 |
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Depends on the person I guess. I myself would feel remorse for taking any life, warranted or not. Some others could care less warranted or not.
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February 14th, 2015, 11:50 PM | #20592 |
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Please don't think I am being nasty but I cannot believe that someone who is in a job to "Protect" life would worry about protecting life.
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February 15th, 2015, 12:32 AM | #20593 | |
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But killing something for most people can, eventually, make someone turn a corner of never wanting to do that again. I know it did for me. I spend a lot of time at a farm about two hours west of where I live. So life and death is something you have to get used to. We've had chickens, turkeys and ducks over the years and, periodically, one will just disappear. Then another. And another. When that happens you get out the traps and try and catch the perpetrator. This happened a couple of years ago and I caught a fairly large raccoon in a live trap. I called the farm owner and asked what he wanted to do with the coon and he said just shoot him. There was a .22 in one of the barns. I thought about it for a while. I really felt like putting the trap and coon in the back of the truck and taking it a few miles away and just letting it go. But then remembered I had a bunch of stuff to do so I went and grabbed the .22. Walked up to the coon, it was looking up at me somewhat quizzically, and I pulled the trigger. I've never felt good about that incident since. And don't want to ever do that again. Not sure why. I've shot a lot of stuff ever since I was a little kid (probably since I was 10 or 12 years old). Maybe it goes back to something Aldo Leopold said a while back: Quote:
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February 15th, 2015, 01:15 AM | #20595 |
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Killing any thing from human to animal can be a very traumatic event to any one. It seems to be only through repetition of the act that a numbness or disassociation occurs. At least in my experience.
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February 15th, 2015, 04:27 AM | #20596 | |
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Major police departments have counselors on staff who have the job of ok'ing a police officer who kills in the line of duty - for their return to duty. So I would guess that some police officers are effected by taking a life.
I do remember a HBO show from the 80's where the aftermath of killings were shown. The only story I recall was of one homeowner who killed a burglar with a shotgun - blew the burglar's brain into his heating vent. He said he was surprised that the police did not clean up the corpse, that he had to do it - and though he cleaned every little part of brain and blood fragments that he could find in his heater, every time he started up the heater - the air stank of dead bodies. I can only guess at what message the producers of that show were trying to send. |
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There are certain aspects of the American government that fulfil my definition of socialism. The US government owns companies like the US Mail and Amtrak, officially named the National Passenger Transportation Board. The US government also owns key economic resources, like coal mines and power stations thru bodies like the Bureau of Land Reclamation, who own the Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams, as well as bodies like the Tennessee Valley Authority and Appalachian Mountain Commission. The US government also supports many industries, the old chestnut being the fact that many of the US's major industrial corporations are part of the US military-industrial complex.
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Copenhagen shootings: Police kill 'gunman' after two attacks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31475803 "It came after one person was killed and three police officers injured at a free speech debate in a cafe on Saturday. In the second attack, a Jewish man was killed and two police officers wounded near the city's main synagogue." Thankfully this particular pathetic sorry bastard is dead but no doubt we are in for more of these almost random events .
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