While waiting for my class this afternoon, I eavesdropped on a conversation of several business students who were waiting to do a presentation. They were discussing new sniper rifles and the merits of medium ranged weapons. Apparently one of these students was or is in the military and had attended sniper school. They began discussing Xm-110 308 that the US military is deploying now and ballistics and windage and bullet mass and powder loads and so on…
They were casually discussing devices that only serve one function: ending human life. I felt like saying this to them, that they were discussing devices that have to redeeming function, but I decided that I did not want to be a jackass.
We are so callous about human life (and I am referring to already born human life… no abortion comments please…). We watched programs on television on which humans are routinely and often brutal murdered. We play video games with the same themes. We discuss instruments of death as casually as we might discuss a good book….
So much effort we put into killing each other over so little cause or provocation.
It needs to stop…
Scott
