As for the latter we have killed threes that are over a thousand years old and we pat ourselves for doing so because the fell three provides needed wood products. Yet there is in me a kind of misgiving that life as ancient as a thousand years has been extirpated from for the greater family of living things.
What is the basis for this ontology to kill a living thing that is a thousand years old? Of course there are always reasons, explanations, rationalization, noble justifications and shit excuses.
What about honour killings when because of religio-cultural orientations, a girl must die because she has somehow diminished or demeaned the exalted honour of father, mother, brothers, uncles, aunts and cousins. All of them decree her unworthy to continue to live. So either father or brother does the great and noble deed to save their honour.
Now we have this second example of the taking of life:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/11778964/Zimbabwe-alleges-second-American-involved-in-illegal-lion-hunt.html
For me there is a kind of sickness in the ontology of a man or woman who considers it an exalted thing to kill another living entity. The sickness is in the Self-Importance, Self-esteem and Ego, SI, SE and EGO that has risen to such uber exaltedness that it can only be satisfied in its need for further exaltation by taking the life of a truly another challenging being; nut in a way that is safe for the killer.
When that happens there is the poignant thrill of exultation by the act of killing that other living thing. But for me this is just SICK, SICK, SICK, SICK and SICK to abandon oneself to ones satisfaction for EXALTATION and EXULTATION.
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