Why do men like to kill men?

[Fixed_Cross]

War and killing and everything on the verge of it, all makes a man more aware of what existence is.
It is however almost impossible to have this knowledge and not lose its meaning. Because it is very hard to justify a kill to the self, and when it cant be done, the life of the killer becomes a farce. He will be reborn as a whipping slave or some such to help him back into a basic awareness of existence.

The act of killing when it is profoundly felt to be just, which is what war is for, brings the killer to the knowledge of the value of his own life, because he has pierced the veil between reason and will to power, or rather, stripped the will to power naked and beholds it as himself.

[Karpel_Tunnel]

@Greatest I am

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Loving war is natural.

youtube.com/watch?v=TIQynsWpBpQ

Cormac McCarthy is probably my favorite living author. That said, the Judge is a character in a novel. So, he’s a character, not the narrator and the narrator ‘himself’ is not even the author, and the author is a fiction writer. That’s a lot of layers down to be taken as evidence. There are facets of war that some people love. It is also natural to hate war, fear it, avoid it. I think the myth that it is simply a part of our nature plays into it’s continuation. We could learn not to have it, to get the lies about it - that it offers the only way to achieve certain kinds of nobility for example.

I like that we are moving to economic war instead of killing wars. Weapons into plowshares is good.

Possibly. Better than all out nuclear war and the like, certainly. But the potential deaths and suffering from economic war are certainly greater than those in any previous war we have had.

The point of an economic war is to keep the other guy alive so that he can bleed out profits perpetually for you.

And vice versa.

Regards
DL

Yes, even slave owners often felt a certain responsibility towards their slaves, even older ones who could no longer work.

[Faust]

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The act of killing when it is profoundly felt to be just, which is what war is for, brings the killer to the knowledge of the value of his own life, because he has pierced the veil between reason and will to power, or rather, stripped the will to power naked and beholds it as himself.

More to less. Which is to say yes.

But you gotta admit, it was a pretty easy question.

[Fixed_Cross]

One of the easiest. In one way. Im guessing the hard part is to keep to whats easy about it.

A typical right brain situation.

[Greatest_I_am]

@Fixed Cross

War and killing and everything on the verge of it, all makes a man more aware of what existence is.
It is however almost impossible to have this knowledge and not lose its meaning. Because it is very hard to justify a kill to the self, and when it cant be done, the life of the killer becomes a farce. He will be reborn as a whipping slave or some such to help him back into a basic awareness of existence.

The act of killing when it is profoundly felt to be just, which is what war is for, brings the killer to the knowledge of the value of his own life, because he has pierced the veil between reason and will to power, or rather, stripped the will to power naked and beholds it as himself.

Perhaps.

Regards
DL

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@Karpel Tunnel

]Yes, even slave owners often felt a certain responsibility towards their slaves, even older ones who could no longer work.

Indeed.

Slaves were hard enough to control and if the owners did not show some compassion to the old, the young would just run away as they saw no light at the end of the misery tunnel.

It was in the owners best interest to try to keep his slaves motivated and productive.

Regards
DL

[Fixed_Cross]

You are just making that up.

Slave-owners generally were not necessarily malicious people.