Uncle Roger's Notebooks of Daily Life
My life is, to me, ripe with frequent challenges, occasional successes, spontaneous laughter, adequate tears, and enough *life* to last me a lifetime. To you, however, it surely seems most pedestrian. And therefore, I recycle the name I used previously and call this my Notebooks of Daily Life. Daily, because it's everyday in nature, ordinary. These conglomeration of events that are my life are of interest to me because I live it, perhaps mildly so to those who are touched by it, and could only be of perverse, morbid curiosity to anyone else. Yet, I offer them here nonetheless. Make of them what you will, and perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.
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Monday, February 07, 2005
I am not a prude. I have a fondness for weapons in general and firearms in particular. I understand that there are times when lethal force is the only option and I have no problem with that. I support the death penalty when the situation warrants it.
And yet, I cannot conceive of any circumstances under which it would ever be acceptable for killing someone to be "fun".
Any time it is necessary for a person to take the life another, it should be a sad and solemn occasion. Such an action represents ultimate failure -- failure of diplomacy, failure of education, failure of civilization.
If you find yourself in the position of having to kill another, I would hope you would do so with all the respect you would want shown to you, were the situation reversed.
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There is something very wrong with the common perception of the government these days. It might have something to do with the fact that those running it have been doing a piss-poor job of it. The fact of the matter is that the government should not be an adversary of its constituency, but its servant instead.
It seems that those in charge have forgotten that the role of the government is to address the needs of its citizens. The government is just a convenient tool created to take care of things we don't have the time or inclination to do ourselves or that require a pooling of resources. Things like delivering mail or building roads. Just as a neighborhood homeowners association would use its members' dues to hire a gardener to care for common areas, so should governments act as agents of the people, using the combined resources of the people for the good of all.
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