Uh oh.. Re Moloch: Things it makes me think of. Does each bomb, each land mine, worship the same? Children died in flames in London, Dresden, Stalingrad, Tokyo. Aren't men, those expected to die, children too? Do we all deserve it, or none. So who cares if children are burned in sacrifice. It's just a difference in ages. And if we believe in an afterlife, a god, why would we do these things? It's explainable, for people who believe god is a devil. But still pathetic. Why is our life so important? So famine comes. Who cares? Who are we to need life so much to kill for it? Why would life then be valuable to us? Why is it so important to survive? For what? There is honor in death. In starvation. In an inability to meet the conditions demanded if they include the damage of self or others. We did not set these conditions. And we do not set the forces against us. If it is inherent in us not to do these things, it does not matter to us that these consequences may befall us. It's just the way we are. People sacrifice their own lives, willingly; why insist on the sacrifice of other lives?
I am not sure that I think this way. But I write it. So I want to do something else, or nothing at all.
What is the consequence we are afraid of? This is not our field, our field of consequences. What penalty will we engage for refusing it? At worst we will disappear. And really, so what.
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