Friday, October 12, 2007

License to Kill: Passion and pathos in a world of inevitable slaughter

by R.B. Pyle, the Orion Magazine

....We each have a license to kill, by virtue of being born. Humans might be the only animals that worry about how they exercise this elemental act. But in calculating just whom we are willing to kill, and toward what ends, we should ever be mindful of all the lives lost on our behalf. And since we are all complicit, maybe we shouldn’t be too quick to condemn the lethal choices of others....

Read the full article

No comments: