Sake White

The incident of Susan Atkins, part of the Manson murders, and Olmert’s decision to release Kuntar (along with 4 other enemies of humanity) in exchange for the dead bodies of two kidnapped Israeli soldiers, is a disturbing trend in human affairs. Here is my response to the Susan Atkins incident.

Since what I spoke of came partially from Aristotle, I’ll let him carry the torch further.

* The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things—and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning…. All their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything; they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else. (II.1389a31)

In our society, with the focus on eternal youth and on how much wiser the “children” are, it is not too surprising that this kind of behavior is much more present here than it ever was in Ancient Athens.

Men … are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody’s friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing the evils now existing in states, suits about contracts, convictions for perjury, flatteries of rich men and the like, which are said to arise out of the possession of private property. These evils, however, are due to a very different cause—the wickedness of human nature. (II.1263b15)

Human nature has been the same ever since the dawn of humanity. And if you aren’t convinced, then realize that this piece was written many thousands of years ago, even if it was translated relatively recently.

# Any one can get angry — that is easy — or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.

Helen likes to say that equality is the goal. Not as easy as she makes it out to be, for the very virtue of “equality” isn’t even equally distributed amongst the population.

Last time I checked, not even God could redistribute virtues from the virtuous to the sinful that need them.

* Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

* Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Equality should not mean “you have one path in life and one path to happiness and this is it”. To die with dignity is not to be provided with comforts and honors, like release from prison, from others.

* Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Which supports my contention that jokes exploit an underlying perception of an unspoken truth. Most other people would say that you are spoiling things by analyzing jokes and looking deep. I say that they are superficial in matters of philosophy and life.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Tony Snow

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Concerning why citizens obey laws in a democratic republic as opposed to the People’s Republic of North Korea.

The corollary is also that wicked men force others to obey from fear as well.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Obama.

The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold.

Meaning, basic security and liberty are not the goals which promote extreme actions. The greatest crimes are committed for the “greater good”. That of equality, fraternity, utopia, or what not. Master Race and all that. Islamic Caliphate and all that.

Something that is not necessary to the human condition, that is what inspires real evil and crime.

* After these matters we ought perhaps next to discuss pleasure. For it is thought to be most intimately connected with our human nature, which is the reason why in educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain; it is thought, too, that to enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on virtue of character. For these things extend right through life, with a weight and power of their own in respect both to virtue and to the happy life, since men choose what is pleasant and avoid what is painful; and such things, it will be thought, we should least of all omit to discuss, especially since they admit of much dispute. (X.1172a17)

* And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. (X.1177b4)

This was the particular section of the Nicomachean Ethics, precursor to Aristotle’s Virtue Theory (an Ethical theory) that demands that virtuous men and women hate what they ought to hate and love what they ought to love. Not in excess or by whim or even by law, but according to virtue.

I do not source my ethics from the Bible or any other Revealed Truth text. Which is why it doesn’t take much attribution or textual citations for me to justify saying that you should not love a murderer of innocents.

Check this out to see what Democrats tolerate as social justice. It ain’t pretty, but then again, self-delusion often never is.

People interested in debates about ethics and journalism and the topic of Zoriah’s wrongness or rightness should read this post by Cassandra of Villainous company, which also includes several of my comments I posted there.

The Irish Douchebag individual at Blackfive is worth this comment, at least.

Tell him thats fine as long as the cops are not involved. I love fighting but I hate jail.

I’m not sure I should say this, but if Jimbo or Kev was threatening people, they would talk about joing breaking, ball busting, and eye removal procedures. Not “bar room social fights”. A real threat is one where when it is actually carried out, you won’t be needing the police, cause you’ll be in the morgue or in the hospital or in the medevac.

I always suspected Jimbo sat in corners and watched the bar room fights cause it was more entertaining that way, but later on I realized it also kept him from losing his training edge by refusing to indulge in social violence that focuses on such social concepts as “toughness” and “intimidation”.

He must be pretty tough to physically threaten people over the internet he does not know.

That’s so hilarious, I’m not even going to say anything. Jimbo can take that one on.

And you Irish Douche do not even seem capable of paying the fuck attention.

When you have a beer bottle attached through your skull via some home brewed trepanation, you can get that way.

When was the last time you visited a VA hospital uncle jimbo?

If IC says VA one more time, I will seriously start believing that he is considering a homicidal rampage in the VA hospitals.

That kind of obsession is never healthy.

Maybe it is because I am in L.A, a city your supporters call un-American.

It’s not so much un-American as it is Mexican gang lord owned. Can’t stop that.

I met him in Boston smart guy and my friends made fun of me.

Now we know how tough racists truly are. Meaning, not much. They are so easily convinced and manipulated if you just prey on their hatreds and petty fears. Useful idiots? Perhaps.

Why don’t you give up Tom. Just ignore me and maybe I will go away.

That doesn’t work on bullies, islamic jihadists, rapists, murderers, but it will work on you? I doubt it.

It does not matter because nobdy here cares and nobody will say squat.

You don’t care that Tom made a good argument about your schizoid fantasies and delusions, IC. But that doesn’t apply to anyone else here, necessarily.

Seriously. Nobody here will ever know you identity, so now’s your chance to come clean and reveal your deepest, darkest impulses.

Tom W might actually have a career as a psychoanalyst like Shrinkwrapped or Dr. Sanity. And that’s too funny in all too many ways.

Its when you mean the opposite of what you say.

As opposed to being IC, where meaning the opposite of what you say is your normal routine? So wouldn’t sarcasm be defined as pure honesty

and I still do hate all that rap rape culture but Obama was smart, honest and he spoke the truth about what will happen

When racism combines with anti-Americanism, weird things can happen. Even weirder alliances made as well.

You call me a fraud because I dont support McCain.

No, he called you a fraud cause he didn’t like you and thought you were lying. Which you, coincidentally, were. And not just to yourself.

Yanno, if it was up to me, I would return him in several body parts for the two dead bodies of Israeli soldiers. 2 hands and one leg should suffice for two dead Israeli bodies, in my scale.

Even though I couldn’t hear 3/5ths of the words in this movie, it was still hilarious, moving, and surprising in terms of plot and characterization. Okay, maybe not so much on characterization, since movies aren’t notorious for good character building. That’s what novels are for.

All you need to know about this movie is that it is about an anti-superhero going into rehab and turning a new leaf.

The first part is comedy, in the vein of Vin Diesel. Meaning, it’s grim humour designed to favor those that like violence, sports, or various other expressions of competition. Given today’s anti-man, anti-aggression, anti-gun, anti-independence, but pro-Islam and pro-Statist dependence, it is very easy to relieve an audience’s tension by showing a character that isn’t limited by current society’s political correctness.

The second part is the meat, so to speak. It’s much more serious and consistent with the “John Hancock” title. Just look at Hancock’s signature in the Declaration of Independence.

I would have preferred that a significant villain be an Islamic terrorist, however. All these white guys are kind of PC and a sign of indoctrination. Hollywood can not do heroism until they can get the villains down right. (Seriously, they don’t even talk about why these people are the villains. They are white, so they are. TO be or not to be.)

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Pet Peeve time. One of my notable complaints about Hollywood’s moral midget personas, involves them being incapable of comprehending criminal psychology. A criminal does not demand that you “shoot him via execution by gun” when you have him on the ground at a disadvantage, solely to test your “moral purity” and “moral high ground”. No criminal is dumb enough to want to make the “good guy” stain his hands by killing the thug criminal. That’s not a good trade off to the thug, no matter what Hollywood wants to think in their metha-amphetamine induced party orgies.

A criminal does not, once he has seen the consequence of resistance, talk back or otherwise act tough in front of an executioner, killer, or anyone else with huge amounts of power relative to the thug.

This isn’t about the film so much as it is about Hollywood’s attempt to influence the film. These are Hollywood’s traits, and if you see it in Hancock, it is only because Hollywood produced the film.

Compared to Tom Cruise’s movies, Hancock only has one or two such moral midget moments. So you can mostly ignore them. Mostly.

The most notable thing I noticed is after you have knocked down somebody, they want you to run away.

That conflicted with my instincts and after Target Focus Training, it also conflicted with my training.

The thing TFT wants you to do after you have disabled, incapacitated, or killed an assailant is look for the next target. If you can’t find a target, then you can just do whatever you want. Walk away, call 9/11, wait around and look at the guy on the ground. Search him for weapons perhaps. Check to see if he still has a pulse.

The notable reason I suspect they want people to run is that it is to avoid enemy reinforcements or avoiding a long grapple fight with larger attackers. I have always been more offensive minded than that.

Defense is all nice and what not, but it’s not what wins wars. And the fact that i even treat criminal encounters as a part of warfare, probably should give you one insight into how I think.

It used to be you’d get this kind of social ostracization for adultery or treason. Now you just get it for pure beatings.

Jessica made this video for a class.

That’s a cute dress. Apart from that, the video, as it was designed to be, is a joke. I don’t mean that in a derogative fashion, of course.

What isn’t a joke is that this is the maximum that most of the citizens of America know about violence. That’s rather sad.

The amount of core depth (like say knowledge, experience, training, skill sets, mentality) needed to defeat and kill sociopaths and serial killers is not, usually, even in the imagination of most people. Yet they are the same people that are supposedly charged with the power to vote in the United States President, who will be dealing with sociopaths and serial killers and perhaps even pardoning them?

It’s a wonder the Founders of America was able to get a system working that had so many people in it with so many flaws. Course, exiling the Loyalists to Canada and Britain must have helped. Too bad we can’t do that with some Hollywood actors and other peeps that shall go unnamed for now.

Steel Knuckles has a very good overview of what most people do when real violence comes a calling.

People freeze because they don’t know what to do. People don’t know what to do because they haven’t trained the way they would fight. Either it is all abstract or their body doesn’t seem to be able to remember how to synch the correct actions together to produce results. Riding a bicycle takes practice. One should not wish to learn a new physical coordination skill when their life is endangered.

You either learn it in advance or you never learn it at all.