We honor the police and the military in our society, even though they are responsible for countless murders. I have never understood how the murder of a person in one context is wrong while it is deemed acceptable in another context. My understanding of murder is that it is bad. I assumed that was everyone's interpretation of murder. I could be wrong.
The sad fact is that the police and the military have such a potential for good. The police should be dedicated to helping the citizens it serves. The military is a well-trained, extremely discipline group of men and women that could be used to deliver food to the hungry. It could build damns for those in need of water. It could transform the world for the better. But instead, both organs are used to murder. Whether it is an African immigrant pulling out his wallet or an Iraqi man unwilling to follow an imposed curfew, the police and the military have squandered their potential and human life.
So, to answer a question I asked yesterday: No.
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