the feel of blood

[nkt]

InfiniteNow, I have to disagree with your statement that being able to kill aggressors isn't useful. It is, in fact, the conrnerstone of society, even polite society.

The lawmen have, eventually, the power to take life. Whether they take it literally, with a blow or shot, or metaphorically, by leaving a man to rot in jail for 50 years, or even metaphysically, where they use character assassination to damn even the dead.

And this is what we base our entire way of life upon. At the end, when words have failed, pushing has turned to shoving, and lines have formed, society must be prepared to hold the line it feels cannot be crossed.

Don't forget that we sleep easily in our beds because our taxes pay for good men to do bad things in our names.

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by nkt

InfiniteNow, I have to disagree with your statement that being able to kill aggressors isn't useful. It is, in fact, the conrnerstone of society, even polite society.

The lawmen have, eventually, the power to take life. Whether they take it literally, with a blow or shot, or metaphorically, by leaving a man to rot in jail for 50 years, or even metaphysically, where they use character assassination to damn even the dead.

And this is what we base our entire way of life upon. At the end, when words have failed, pushing has turned to shoving, and lines have formed, society must be prepared to hold the line it feels cannot be crossed.

Don't forget that we sleep easily in our beds because our taxes pay for good men to do bad things in our names.

While I disagree with most of what you said, nkt (as it blatantly ignores past experience, positive reinforcement, and all manner of other social theories), I never said that the ability to kill aggressors isn't *useful.*

What I said was:

We no longer live in trees and savanna, where the ability to kill an aggressor will aid in our survival. We live in a society with billions of people, and only the prefrontal cortex induced suppression of the reptilian amygdalal systems (look up emotion and intelligence to learn more) will allow us to move forward on this planet as a group of life… together.

Survival in this world is reliant on survival of others with whom we can consense.

Blood regenerates, and your immune system will heal the wounds. Use this experience to grow as a person and understand the world. Use it to improve the person you will become later in life…

Cheers.