“Be polite, be professional, but always have a plan to kill everyone you meet.” - Marine Gen. James Mattis
I knew that 20 years ago!
Someone only concerned with self-preservation will see all as potential threats and will rationally kill them all.
Someone balancing this purely rational thinking with emotions of love and kindness
will refrain from killing all that ‘might’ be a threat and enjoy the benefits of love and kindness.
Had a friend and his wife that were avid hikers. He was walking ahead of her maybe 50’, heard some commotion in the brush behind him. In the blink of an eye a black bear ran out of the brush in front of his wife to see if a meal to be had but started slipping on the wet rocky trail as it suddenly noticed him. My friend raised his arms instinctively to try and distract the bear, and it used it’s momentum from slipping to fly to the other side of the trail and off into the brush. Whole thing took maybe 5-7 seconds.
They’re now a closer couple when hiking…
Everyday the bumpkins at American Thinker increase their hallucinogen doses, causing terrible damage to the flora and fauna growing between their ears.
Well, if the weaker people are friends with such entities as Smith, Wesson, Ruger and Colt, then that could stop us from killing them. :-)
Nobody has handed me a pistol and said “Cold Gun” or I might have shot and killed a buncha people. So, I guess I got lucky that way or the other people did.
Perhaps the two stocky men were only out for a hike, just like the author with the paranoid fantasy issue.
What stops us from stealing from people weaker than us?
"What Stops Us from Killing Those Weaker than Ourselves?"
Where I live, everybody from the newspaper boy to the guy driving the ice cream truck carries a gun...
... so there's that.