Monday, April 16, 2007

To Those That We Lost

Virginia Tech.

Every culture has this fascination with death. The Muslims strap explosives to their chests and blow up innocents, the Asians strap themselves to the seat of their plane and crash into the enemy and Americans strap themselves with ammo and gun down children and then kill ourselves.

It does seem that this dark cloud has loomed over America for the past decade. Kids killing in schools, Old men shooting Mormons, and now this new incident. I don’t think this is just an American problem, every culture possesses these tendencies. We have more access to the guns and the best press coverage in the world.

Imagining stepping over that line is inconceivable. The snowballing of emotions that must be going through your mind and the total narcissism. To take life so indiscriminately is so rehensible.

America’s freedom comes with a dark side. Evil is allowed to fester and grow, then given free reign to do what it wills. But humans deep down are moralists, compassionate and nurturing. Its just that the bad seeds get the airtime.

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