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Originally Posted by Roderick Usher
One of the things I love about it. I can explore the concept from various angles and dissect and really pay attention to why people behave as they do.
I understand that most people feel as you do - and I expliot that in an effort to turn it around, but people will ususally ignore any message that conflicts with their personal morality.
and as for experienceing it personally. A dear friend suffered terribly. Her father was murdered in Dallas when she was 14 years old. They caught the guy, convicted him and (being in Texas) gave him a rather speedy execution. My friend went with her mother to the execution thinking it would give them closure...
Steph still wakes up at night screaming. It ruined her marriage. The loss of her father was awful and something that can never be trivialised, but watching the execution has left her permanently scarred.
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I think if that situation (or any in life) had a cosmic point, it was that normal, helathy minded, decent people, are negatively affected by intentional killing. While putting the man to death may have been a good thing, watching it happen wasnt.
They talk about this kind of thing with regards to training soldiers. The human mind, at least a menatally healthy one, has to be reprogrammed in order to turn the person into a killer. They make killing a reflex, so that the soldier does not think about what they are doing. the idea is to protect their psyche from the damage caused by killing another human.