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The Human Capacity To Kill
- duaneb 15y agoI love reading Brooks; a thoughtful, intellectual conservative is a real treat. However, this is not about politics; another treat. Like everyone else, I've had my share of fantasies---mostly about getting rich & famous, but, yes, sometimes homicidal fantasies. Living with depression, I've also had fantasies of self harm. The key with these type of situations you'd normally like to avoid is to never put yourself in a situation where you can fulfill them, because humans are creatures of extraordinary every insanity. We can delude ourselves into thinking the strangest things are normal. In the case of the serial killer, he deluded himself into thinking that it was alright---perhaps even good---to do what he did. Unfortunately, he was also in a position to carry out his fantasy. More and more, when thinking about war, I've come to the conclusion that it destroys soldiers. People should not be subject to the kinds of stresses that soldiers deal with daily, and if we must go to war, we should not continually subject the same people to year after year of the frontline, the way people are today.