There have been genocides and
holocausts throughout history against many different cultures and
countries. Seldom (although I could be wrong) have those events been
used as an eternal "free pass" card by those sharing an ethnicity with
the victims to behave in any way they want. Yet that is the weird
Orwellian world we live in today and have for generations, at least
pertaining to one group in particular.
What if a group
of American Indians started mass killing black people using the fact
that Caucasians destroyed their culture hundreds of years ago as
justification? That kind of logic probably wouldn't be supported by the
public and it sure as heck wouldn't be championed. Would we support
Japan attacking France because a few generations ago America nuked
Japan's cities? Probably not. And yet, in this bizarre Alice in
Wonderland world we live in, at least in certain cases, such a mindset
is universally deemed logical.
I think generally as herd animals,
our definition of morality is largely defined by what we're told is
right or wrong by society rather than an actual inner moral compass.
And we stick by those definitions of right and wrong even if they don't
make any sense. The results are often incongruous, illogical and
self-contradicting, but that doesn't seem to matter. It's like we live
in a civilization-wide version of the Milgrim shock experiment without
ever realizing it.
Tomorrow they should just announce new laws
that anyone named Jason and/or who was born in February has the right to
kill whomever they want or rob any bank of their choosing. I'm
guessing if the idea is enforced enough and promoted enough on the Today
Show--and if enough people who object to this are publicly ostracized
and jailed--in a generation's time at least 99% of the population will
be fully on board and won't give it a second thought. And the remaining
1% will remain silent on the whole "Jason issue" out of fear for their
careers.
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