@Arella Mae,
Arella Mae wrote:
Okay, so exactly what kind of animal was Ted Bundy? Dog? Gorilla? Horse? You are not following me at all. This originally started because you said if a person does not have a conscience they are not human. That was an incorrect statement. You have been talking psychologically whereas I have been talking physically. I had thought when I said Ted Bundy was a human, A NASTY ONE AT THAT, you would have gotten the point.
I don't have to know what sort of animal he was to recognize that he did not measure up to a human being... We share over 99% of our genes with Chimps, and the sort of behavior bundy showed would only be likely in an extremely disturbed chimp, but it is certain such behavior can be seen without the organization a higher homonid would be capable of...
Look; AM... There are many political figures past and future who have shown as little regard for life, and have killed and maimed with as little consideration, and that fact that they are doing it for a moral purpose when it is considered our purpose gives them a pass... I don't give them a pass... Lincoln, who may have actually killed all of two animals in his life time, who said an ant has as much regard for his life as you do for yours, also ordered thousands to kill and to their deaths for mostly political considerations... I am not saying he was not right... I trust that he did suffer far more moral qualms than bundy... Those doubts were not sufficient to stop the carnage on his end, and considering that he did try, and did risk his political future to end the war sooner there are enough facts on both sides to weigh him... There is to me a difference between war and tragedy... When people can talk and share a similar culture as in the Trojan War, or our Civil War, and yet people do not use their words to address their problems and to seek mutual justice which is moral, but instead accept force against enemies they view only as objects and not as people, then they class themselves as little better than a bundy... What Stalin said: That the death of one is a tragedy, but that the deaths of ten thousand is a statistic- is clearly correct, and exacting in the picture it paints of him... We can all grasp that single death... We can grasp the death of a child, a parent, a sibling, or a friend... We cannot grasp death so manifold or distant as to be beyond conception, and yet that is exactly what the world too often presents us with.... The moral person recognizing that he or she has a relationship with all people values even more their relationships with loved ones and near... We should be suspicious of every attempt to objectify others which goes on apace is government... They are heartless killers, and if they would do it to others they would do it to us...
