@H2O MAN,
H2O MAN wrote:
One less worthless thug on the streets of America and countless innocents protected.
That calls for a celebration.
No one is innocent, least of all the thug or the man who shot him... Most of us are simply not guilty of most of the crimes we may possibly be charged with... Face it, water... To have our lives we have to buy into a system which makes it seem quite natural for a man to threaten violence for money and for another to make that violence real in the defense of money... Well; what is money to die for???... Most of it is simply paper... Some of it is metal that could do nothing for the beautiful but weigh them down... That paper and metal is only a form of relationship, a form we give value to, and give meaning to because we find it essential to our lives... When we have reached the point where we are taking life in defense of our values and meanings when those values and meanings grow out of our lives which is the ultimate value and meaning, then something is wrong with the relationship called money...
I do not doubt, that in one sense at least, the death of that human being you define as a thug adds inestimatably to the value of our cash... Instead; it should call into question our whole system of values, and all our relationship through the form of our economy... Relationships are dynamic, and forms are static... It is not the form we should value above life, but the life we should value above the form... Every day people die for the economy... I have seen people literally die for their jobs since their jobs killed them... I have seen good people work themselves to death, and others work them to death if they were unwilling to do so on their own... But, it was all for a buck, so that is justification enough... Bullshit!!! You know that is Bullshit... What value has the dollar to the dead thug??? Do you not guess that the man who killed him is not measuring his wages against his sin??? We are commanded not to kill, and everyone knows it is wrong because even when right it cannot be undone... And; it destroys the relationship that should exist between people whatever their form...
If you can grasp what I am saying, it is that the relationship, the value of the relationship to life is what gives the form its meaning... When forms destroy the life that give them meaning they are not working no matter how much you may reville in the fact that a human life is destroyed... But here is the thing the rich do not get, that you do not get: At some point, everyone needs something of the form to value it... If the rich have all the money, to a point the poor will value it more highly than life, or as highly.... Ultimately, their having all the money will destroy the relationship we call money that might last forever if we all have some of it... The same is true of country, that once they have it all, they will destroy the value of it... And of justice, and of liberty, that once they control all of it, none of it will have other than a negative meaning...
It is because these forms are shared through a relationship that they have a common meaning, and those who expect to have it all will have so much of nothing...The very process of the rich controlling all the money will make it worthless, and they do it themselves through inflation and interest... Both are used to rob from the poor, and in the end they will rob from money its positive meaning... They want security, but in taking all security from the people they do not make themselves more secure, but threaten chaos everywhere... Enjoy...