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Nobel SavageI have to say, one thing I have discovered is that as much as I do love literature and as much as I read, and read a vast majority of different things, I do not truly fit in with an Intellectual crowd. As mentioned before I belong to this Literary forum and well I enjoy discussing the books, and enjoy a few discussion groups, and well I love to argue with everyone else, my views are often askew from that of everyone else. And what the problem is that most of those intellectual types, they are all so, what is the word I want, well I guess "humane" or soft, kind of bleeding heartish, overly empathetic, very "turn the other cheek" or "don't judge others" type of thing. Like a lot of them don't believe in the death penalty and they actually believe that world peace might someday be possible. Very idealistic. Pacifists, that is what many of them are, while I am far more aggressive in my general nature. At heart I am just too much of a barbarian to be an intellectual. I have a much harder-edged view upon things and I don't have a whole lot, (ok I don't really have any) sympathy for those who I deem as not deserving it. A lot of them are also very snobbish in ways. I am the total rebel.
Someone started this discussion all about revenge and whether it is a good thing or a bad, and of course I am all for revenge. I am a proponent of an Eye for an Eye, but everyone else is like oh revenge is so wrong, and you should forgive people, and then a couple of people wanted to talk about how the death penalty is really just a form of revenge and how a society that says murder is wrong should not have the death penalty. All the usual arguments. But I say, if someone kills another person in cold blood. Fry Their Ass! and if is just an act of revenge, who cares, I don't give a damn about their life and to me it is worth nothing. As for forgiveness. Pshaw, I don't forgive until I have had retribution. Then someone tried to take this idiotic completely literal interpretation of an eye for an eye, about "Well if someone raped one of your loves ones, you would you really respond by raping someone in their family? And I said, no, but I think death is a perfectly justifiable punishment for rape. Then they were like isn't death for rape upping the ante? And I say, no, it is perfectly legitimate. 3:31 PM - 10/20/2008 - post comment
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 For though All are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them. ~The Monk
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