As soon as a society or culture begins to make killing other people conditionally acceptable behaviour through justifications such as land, resources, political differences, power, expansion of borders or profit for their military industrial complex, you can hardly expect the participants of that society to not begin to feel that they too are entitled to create conditionally acceptable justifications at their own level in said culture to also take another's life for their own immediate gain and/or self satisfaction.
Throughout the course of our history as a nation, we in the US have been inundated with a near constant paradox declaring murder a social taboo, while our laws and history show it to be a perfectly acceptable solution for gov't to resolve it's issues with other people, other countries and even it's own citizens.
How long did anyone hope that in time, this erradic and psychotic hypocrisy would be able to remain prominent in our culture without our culture becoming exactly that which has been exemplified through repeated example?
We may never see a better living representation of "you reap what you sow" than what this country and its more than 17,000 indcidents of domestic homicide per year (11,000 of which where guns are used) has become in the 21st century.
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