My heart aches as I heard and see news about killings of people for different causes and reasons. Locally, not less than ten people are gunned down everyday. News abroad of killings , the number would range to few hundreds.
What is worst to this killings is the justification that taking lives of the people is done for the greater good. Take for example the anti-drug campaigns in different parts of the world. Killing the suspected drug addicts and sellers are justified. They are after all walking zombies. Therefore they have no reason to live anymore.The crimes that these drug addicts could do are beyond measures so killing them is noble.
People seem to agree with this justification. They nod their heads in agreement to their political leaders who tell them that death penalty or extrajudicial killings are reasonable.People appear to love violence because they accept it.
In other parts of the world, killings are done in the name of God Almighty. Some so-called jihadists kill people both Christians and Muslims because the latter do not agree with their religious fanaticism.
In retaliation, countries that are at odds with these jihadist also kill and bomb places that are suspected as lairs of the terrorists. Children, women, and innocent civilians become the collateral damages.This is also done in the name of greater good. To kill a terrorist is a public duty. To kill and bomb civilians are natural consequence.
Killings therefore in the world become unstoppable. Might is right becomes the rule of the strong and powerful.Governments become the oppressors of their own people. In the process, they become human rights violators. They become terrorists themselves because they utilize state police and armed forces to kill their own people.
Killings are unchristian and inhuman and violation of Christian Ten Commandments. Even other religions are also against killings. Amazingly, killings are also accepted by religious leaders. Many of them are agreeing that killing is necessary to save others lives. Some of them, religious and political leaders say that human rights are big hindrance to stop crimes because criminals hide in the provision of innocence in the provisions of human rights and constitution. They propose more power to kill and violate the rights of their own citizens.
Whatever justification of killings in the name of achieving long lasting peace, the end really does not justify the means.People should also scrutinize their leaders because probably many of them are mentally sick. Some of them probably are narcisstic and really anti-life. People should not wait that they all surrender their freedom of this mad leaders and wake later and it's too late, they're all gobbled by these monsters.
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