It seems to me that the only reason lawful killing has ever evolved as a concept is because of the volume of unlawful killing in which humans engage. We've spent huge amounts of money figuring out how to kill more people faster. It is a great shame and an embarrassment to humanity, IMHO. But some folks just espouse it as a natural side effect of living in a tooth and claw world, which is of course a self-fulfilling assertion.

Tooth and claw works very well for those organisms that can't come up with something better, but I have never noticed that we were among those crippled species... We have demonstrated that we ARE capable of something better.

Wonder why we don't exercise that ability?


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