Let’s say hypothetically a terrorist organization, let’s call them Hamas, attacks a community they hate, let’s say the jews, kill civilians indiscriminately, rape women and then kill them, parade them naked where they live and then spit on their dead bodies. They take hostages and force some women among the hostages into sex slavery. Let’s just they follow a extremist version of a repressive 7th century ideology which grants them permission to do all these things during war and let’s just hypothetically assume that I know what I am talking about because I have read the book I am talking about.
Well, how do you deal with this? They think their evil has a stamp of approval of God (the one with a big G). What punishment apart from death penalty would you prescribe to these distinguished gentlemen who kill, rape & kill, torture innocent people in the name of God?
How should a country who was attacked deal with these people? I think they know, but I was wondering if we know.
Now, for those who will try to justify these actions by whataboutery, I just want you to know that I don’t approve of the disgusting Israeli settlements of Jews in Palestine either. I think they should end it “a few decades ago”. But, this was not the reason Hamas attacked Israel. I notice that this isn’t the behavior you engage in if you even want military victories. You don’t rape women and kill them because the country the woman belongs to has occupied your land (Gaza hasn’t been under Israeli control since 2003, btw)
I have that virus. It’s latent within me, it’s programmed into me. I have seen it in others and I have seen it in myself.
The way I manage that is I carry a weapon so I don’t have to beg when someone else’s virus decides to attack me.
And if someone treats me as a potential threat, I don’t get offended when they take steps to make themselves safe against me. I know it’s not personal. I am dangerous, just like the rest of us.
I think me knowing that I’m dangerous makes me less dangerous. And I work to integrate the two states of consciousness: me not being mind controlled by the virus, and me being mind controlled by the virus. I work to merge it into my conscious mind, so that it’s close enough to control. I don’t want to be Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, with both unconscious of the other. I want to be one man who is the two of them integrated.
I integrate my angel with my demon in order to prevent those moments when it’s only the demon running me. Better to have a mix of the two than one, then the other, and back and forth.
