Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Conscience

There is a sort of unbearable beauty that youth often has, especially these adolescents who seem so physically prime and mentally eager for new and radiant experience when they are barely able to recognize the concept of a pedophile. Sometimes I feel like I am a pedophile in my mind, which at first is thinking "Ruff, ruff" like I was a ranging dog or a hungry wolf. Until I realize, "Oh, yeah, I'm civilized. It's my job to help protect these sweet young things and not stand too close to them. Rats."

It's easy enough to see why criminals do what they do. They never have to think of their victims as anything but that. They don't feel related to them. I can't do that. I feel like shit if I only cut someone off in traffic. Part of me questions whether conscience is really any good for me. But conscience isn't meant to be good for me, I don't think. It's there to keep the society, the civilization, intact. This isn't a perfect culture we have in America, but it is wrong to trample people's rights, whether they are young or old or in-between.


13 comments:

  1. So very true. Being civilized or conscious of a higher moral code is the only thing keeping most of us out of jail!

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  2. We're all raging, sefish egocentrics at heart, thank God most of us have a splash of empathy to temper it. Fear not Ron, your normal - inward thoughts never hurrs anyone, only ourselves!

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  3. Hmmmm ... a Rat with a conscience ... paradoxical, and yet intriguing ...

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  4. Careful, Rat---a couple of these are HUMANS---they'll capture you, and start PROBING...!

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  5. How can you be certain, Bruno?

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  6. Is that like being probed by aliens?

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  7. I hope not. They're nasty!

    Oh, wait a minute, so am I!

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  8. I like to think I'd act the same whether there were laws and whether I knew I could get away with something or not. Maybe I'm kidding myself.

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  9. Dawn: Old Dylan lyrics: "To live outside the law,you must be honest!"

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  10. So, Ron, are you a human or an alien? I think there are people out there that are just begging to be kicked in the ass. Its just our strength of spirit that keeps us from doing it. Maybe that's what heavens for.

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  11. Just dysfunctional, I think...

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  12. Hey, Dawn:
    I think you may represent a vanguard in human evolution: The rare person who doesn't have to be threatened by jail or some concept of eternal damnation in order to be compassionate or empathetic! But in comtemporary humanity, the vast majority aren't there yet, or even close. The kind of moral reason you describe may be many millinia away from becoming the norm. If ever.
    Anyway, to Ron: You've got an intriguing site here. I shall visit more often.

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