something my friend wrote..thought it was awesome:
if it is okay to kill an animal to further life by not starving then
shouldn’t it be okay to kill another human being to further your life
by not
dying?
“People died so we can live the lives we are living” or did people
murder
for the life I’m living so do I want it?
I wasn’t asked whether I wanted people to kill other human beings for
the
comforts of free speech and modern society; is it worth it?
How many lives is ‘nation-hood’ worth?
Is there a hierarchy in human life?
People try to say that war isn’t black and white; that there are grey
areas
and it’s often true, but if we’re going to be the generation that stops
war
we have to make it black and white and say:
WAR IS AN ATROCITY; IN NO SITUATION WILL WE AS A GENERATION SUPPORT IT.
If we don’t make it an option than we will be forced to find other ways
of
solving conflicts; there has to be a paradigm shift in which killing
another
human being is never okay or it will never stop happening.
Life is complex. Mostly these posters are because I want us to do more
than
just glorify soldiers and abhor war for one day a year.
Today I'm remembering the child soldiers in Rawanda and all those who
war
has hurt but I just want people to shift their feelings towards
soldiers.
Feel sympathy for them as victims of war, the way you feel sympathy for
any
other murderer who made recourse to that action because they were ill
informed or didn't have the necessary understanding to do otherwise.
Don't glorify them as the champions of free speech or the free world
(some
guy knocked on my door and was like i'm so angry with you right now,
you
have the right to say these things because of people dying in war...)
BULLSHIT! Maybe cowards can say what they want because of free speech,
but I
have free speech because the things I say are understandings not
beliefs and
I would die for them, so nobody has to 'give me free speech'.
I know in my heart and the pit of my soul that if someone tried at
gunpoint
to force me to go to war I would look them straight in the eyes and
tell
them to kill me before I would kill another human being. That’s because
I
understand, not believe that killing another person is not my place.
Furthermore, there's absolutely no link between free speech and war; we
have
free speech because as a group of people we got together and decided to
write a constitution that guarantees it... you don't need war to do
that...
in fact you don't need war to do anything and as long as there are
people
out there spreading the conception that war is the reason we have free
speech and all kinds of glorifications we will be unable to stop war.
Feel compassion for soldiers as victims of war, but don't respect their
actions, or we will truly 'break faith' with those in Flander's
Fields...
they didn't want us to just fucking remember them once a year! They
want us
to end war and as long as you respect rather than feel sadness at their
position we will never end war...
Ash
PS. I’m not going to end my contemplation of war with Remembrance Day
so as
I think about the complexities of war and post stuff on my door, feel
free
to take a moment: we are the generation that has to end war if we want
to
truly pay homage to its atrocity.
A WORLD WITH NO WAR IS A UTOPIA: This is a self-fulfilling prophecy; if
we
believe it we make it true
To respect soldiers for killing in the past is to say that if we are
challenged again it is appropriate to have another war; is this what
those
soldiers who died in the atrocity of war would want? Or would they want
us
to make sure there are no more wars?
Murder is defined as the intentional and unlawful killing of another
human
being; why have we made it legal for soldiers to kill?
Maybe we believe that there are things for which it is okay to murder?
As long as we believe that there are things worth killing for there
will be
war...
Is it the same to die for something as it is to kill for it?
People die for freedom so we should respect them;
People murder for it so do I want it?
Lots of people have taken offence to these posters and my statement
“Celebrate murderers”. I feel that it is murder to kill another human
being
(whether it’s lawful or unlawful is, for me, besides the point) and so
the
respect paid to war veterans is to me a celebration of murderers. I
don’t,
however, believe that people don’t have the right to partake in it; my
goal
is only that I want people to think about why in this context they are
celebrating murder; is it because there are some things worth killing
for,
like our current lifestyle?
I don’t believe there is anything worth killing for and that’s why I
bring
it up; I don’t want to tell people HOW to think I just want them to
THINK.
Think anything you want but just really consider why you celebrate
killing
in this context and if you come to the conclusion that for you there
are
things worth killing for than that’s fine, at least you’re stopping and
thinking about it.
'There is such a gap between how one lives and how one ought to live
that
anyone who abandons what is done for what ought to be done learns his
ruin
rather than his preservation: for a man who wishes to profess goodness
at
all times will come to ruin among so many who are not good.'
(Machiavelli, The Prince 52)
Does this mean we have to lower ourselves to the level of those who
‘are not
good’ and engage in war?
the only problem with man is that he doesn't know how he ought to live
The more you want something, the less likely it will happen.
stealin and dealin screamin semen like a demon
Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one.
bring Back The 60's!!
if it is okay to kill an animal to further life by not starving then
shouldn’t it be okay to kill another human being to further your life
by not
dying?
“People died so we can live the lives we are living” or did people
murder
for the life I’m living so do I want it?
I wasn’t asked whether I wanted people to kill other human beings for
the
comforts of free speech and modern society; is it worth it?
How many lives is ‘nation-hood’ worth?
Is there a hierarchy in human life?
People try to say that war isn’t black and white; that there are grey
areas
and it’s often true, but if we’re going to be the generation that stops
war
we have to make it black and white and say:
WAR IS AN ATROCITY; IN NO SITUATION WILL WE AS A GENERATION SUPPORT IT.
If we don’t make it an option than we will be forced to find other ways
of
solving conflicts; there has to be a paradigm shift in which killing
another
human being is never okay or it will never stop happening.
Life is complex. Mostly these posters are because I want us to do more
than
just glorify soldiers and abhor war for one day a year.
Today I'm remembering the child soldiers in Rawanda and all those who
war
has hurt but I just want people to shift their feelings towards
soldiers.
Feel sympathy for them as victims of war, the way you feel sympathy for
any
other murderer who made recourse to that action because they were ill
informed or didn't have the necessary understanding to do otherwise.
Don't glorify them as the champions of free speech or the free world
(some
guy knocked on my door and was like i'm so angry with you right now,
you
have the right to say these things because of people dying in war...)
BULLSHIT! Maybe cowards can say what they want because of free speech,
but I
have free speech because the things I say are understandings not
beliefs and
I would die for them, so nobody has to 'give me free speech'.
I know in my heart and the pit of my soul that if someone tried at
gunpoint
to force me to go to war I would look them straight in the eyes and
tell
them to kill me before I would kill another human being. That’s because
I
understand, not believe that killing another person is not my place.
Furthermore, there's absolutely no link between free speech and war; we
have
free speech because as a group of people we got together and decided to
write a constitution that guarantees it... you don't need war to do
that...
in fact you don't need war to do anything and as long as there are
people
out there spreading the conception that war is the reason we have free
speech and all kinds of glorifications we will be unable to stop war.
Feel compassion for soldiers as victims of war, but don't respect their
actions, or we will truly 'break faith' with those in Flander's
Fields...
they didn't want us to just fucking remember them once a year! They
want us
to end war and as long as you respect rather than feel sadness at their
position we will never end war...
Ash
PS. I’m not going to end my contemplation of war with Remembrance Day
so as
I think about the complexities of war and post stuff on my door, feel
free
to take a moment: we are the generation that has to end war if we want
to
truly pay homage to its atrocity.
A WORLD WITH NO WAR IS A UTOPIA: This is a self-fulfilling prophecy; if
we
believe it we make it true
To respect soldiers for killing in the past is to say that if we are
challenged again it is appropriate to have another war; is this what
those
soldiers who died in the atrocity of war would want? Or would they want
us
to make sure there are no more wars?
Murder is defined as the intentional and unlawful killing of another
human
being; why have we made it legal for soldiers to kill?
Maybe we believe that there are things for which it is okay to murder?
As long as we believe that there are things worth killing for there
will be
war...
Is it the same to die for something as it is to kill for it?
People die for freedom so we should respect them;
People murder for it so do I want it?
Lots of people have taken offence to these posters and my statement
“Celebrate murderers”. I feel that it is murder to kill another human
being
(whether it’s lawful or unlawful is, for me, besides the point) and so
the
respect paid to war veterans is to me a celebration of murderers. I
don’t,
however, believe that people don’t have the right to partake in it; my
goal
is only that I want people to think about why in this context they are
celebrating murder; is it because there are some things worth killing
for,
like our current lifestyle?
I don’t believe there is anything worth killing for and that’s why I
bring
it up; I don’t want to tell people HOW to think I just want them to
THINK.
Think anything you want but just really consider why you celebrate
killing
in this context and if you come to the conclusion that for you there
are
things worth killing for than that’s fine, at least you’re stopping and
thinking about it.
'There is such a gap between how one lives and how one ought to live
that
anyone who abandons what is done for what ought to be done learns his
ruin
rather than his preservation: for a man who wishes to profess goodness
at
all times will come to ruin among so many who are not good.'
(Machiavelli, The Prince 52)
Does this mean we have to lower ourselves to the level of those who
‘are not
good’ and engage in war?
the only problem with man is that he doesn't know how he ought to live
The more you want something, the less likely it will happen.
stealin and dealin screamin semen like a demon
Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one.
bring Back The 60's!!