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To: j-at-home who wrote (297355)	11/10/2004 5:34:55 AM
From: zonder	Respond to of 436258

What takes a man to the point of accepting death and/or killing another man? Surely, the certainty that if you don't kill him first, he will kill you. There is also the burning hatred of those who have lost loved ones, and have no hope for the future, directed at those you feel are responsible. The first: we can all kill to survive an immediate threat to our own life, no problem. The second: Don't say it is "killing for a whole lot less", without actually imagining yourself in that situation. After spending my whole life trapped in some refugee camp, if the occupier's plane dropped a bomb that killed my father and/or my baby daughter in front of my eyes, you betcha I could kill for revenge and possibly not care if I died in the meanwhile. [Now that I think about it, this instinct probably has an evolutionary purpose, as valid as killing your potential assassin to save your own skin - the instinct to kill a predator to the species overcoming your own instinct to survive, in order to ensure the survival of your genes and hence the rest of the tribe. But I digress...]