CULTURAL PROGRAMMING, MURDER AND THE LACK OF COMPASSION
People operate according to programming. If they receive bad programming, they will behave badly. If they receive good programming, they will behave accordingly. And only a blessed few on earth are able to identify all of their bad programming, much less remove it or replace it with good programming, and accomplish this by their own efforts.
Those who have fallen unconsciously victim to external bad programming usually end up doing horrible things, either to themselves or others or both. And when/if they do something terrible, the first reaction among a populace filled with bad programming is nearly always unanimous—punishment. For bad programming leaves no room for compassion.
Punishing people with prison sentences for committing ‘offenses’ for which they truly and honestly cannot prevent themselves from doing, or (even worse) for ‘offending’ some useless idiotic law they never knew existed, is about as useful and compassionate a ‘solution’ to crime as is a doctor who punishes people by feeding them poison for the unconscionable, unforgivable ‘offense’ of getting sick.
People who commit murder are simply operating according to programming, and usually have no idea that there is any other solution to the problem that has led them to such an act. But vilifying them and punishing them isn’t going to do any good. It will only exacerbate the initial problem, offering no hope for the person whose only ‘crime’ may have been as simple as never having received any compassion or love whatsoever in life.
There is a pitiless, merciless and slightly perverse part of me that is truly grateful every single time there is a news report about yet another new crazed gunman who flips out and kills more people than the last crazed gunman to hit the news (sometimes only days earlier).
My reasoning is simple—people simply are not yet waking up. So perhaps one day, when a lone gunman manages to kill enough people, single-handedly tallying up a body count in just ten minutes that equals that of the Normandy Invasion, then perhaps our nation might reach a critical mass wherein enough people finally ‘get it’ and realize that the problem is not the ease with which one can acquire powerful weapons, but rather lies in the bad programming that inevitably led someone to want to murder in the first place.
So go ahead,…outlaw guns. People will just murder each other with knives. Outlaw knives. People will murder each other with baseball bats. Outlaw baseball bats. People will murder each other with whatever is not illegal. Outlaw everything that could be used as a weapon. People with bad programming will just use their bare hands if that is all that is available. So cut off everyone’s hands. People will use their feet to kick each other to death. So cut off legs too. Then we will just be a bunch of naked torsos lying on the ground, slowly starving to death……
And then the problem of murder will be solved.
Or maybe we can try a genuine healing approach by applying a little compassion.
It might work.
It certainly hasn’t been tried yet………
