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One Love
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| Posted 1/5/2012 7:03 PM (GMT -6) |   | |
"You have to make a choice, you or him and I chose my son over him," she said.
"There's nothing more dangerous than a mother with her baby."
Honest question:
Is that a explicitly HUMAN (ie PERSONAL) characteristic...or is this simply the maternal sensibility/instinct that most other animals in the animal kingdom would have towards those who threaten their young?
What is specifically HUMAN (ie PERSONAL) about this kind of activity?
Nothing that I can see. If a tigress or a whale were able to speak languages we could understand, they'd probably say the same thing, right?
Just my thoughts.
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Post Edited (One Love) : 1/5/2012 6:09:14 PM (GMT-6) | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 1/5/2012 7:12 PM (GMT -6) | | I don't judge the mother's actions. She did what she had to do. That's between her and God. God bless her.
At the same time, I can say that I'm glad that Mary didn't have a similar attitude about her baby.
Can you imagine where we would all be if that were so?
Just another thought.
"...and a sword will pierce through your own soul also."
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Post Edited (One Love) : 1/5/2012 6:15:41 PM (GMT-6) | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 1/5/2012 7:24 PM (GMT -6) | | Oh. And just a really quick observation.
"They said I couldn't shoot him til he was inside the house, so I waited til he got in the door and then I shot him."
Just a thought. What do you think would have happened if she would have yelled about her presence, and intent to shoot, and busted off a warning shot even through the door? Do you think that may have distracted the the culprits...maybe even made them run away?
Probably.
Just noting that...had she wanted to merely keep herself and her child safe, that option was available to her. She was obviously lucid enough to talk to the Oklahoma operator. Hmmm...
Who knows. I can say this for myself. Honestly. There was a time in my life where I actually somewhat wanted someone to try to do something to my family on my property...so I could indulge in justifiable homicide. No lie. Back then it was, you come in my house tryin to take mine or hurt mine, you die painfully and slow at my hands...and I get off scot-free. I get to kill someone and be called a hero for defending my family. And I would have used the EXACT reasoning that she did: waiting until they crossed "the line".
Sad to say, I really did think this way at one time. I was practically sub-human, in this regard.
Now maybe I'm the only person in the US that had closeted homicidal urges dying for expression...
But then again, maybe I'm not...
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Post Edited (One Love) : 1/5/2012 6:32:23 PM (GMT-6) | | Back to Top | | |
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