When a person assaults a crowd of people in a harmful and deadly fashion, they make a choice to do wrong, to bring pain and suffering, to take lives on the physical plane as well as destroy the mental wellness of their victims. Barring hypnosis or mind altering chemicals, regardless of who gives the orders to do so, a person has the choice to carry out any crime against humanity, nature, life, and should be judged on their own free will accordingly.
Through this chaos, this confusion, the dismay and despair and hopelessness caused by the shooter in Colorado, conspiracy theories have developed, political sides have been taken, religious predictions have been reborn, and we have once again found a reason to hate one another, a reason to blame one another, a reason to declare why our side is better and more right than the other, and reason after reason to ignore the direct victims (as we are all now victims in some way) and make their trauma another excuse to fight.
There would be no conspiracies without a willing participant and a willing audience. Without a willingness to kill and to harm and to destroy the lives of children and strangers and loved ones and ourselves, and without an eagerness to see chaos and strife, there would be no puppets and the puppet masters would cease to reign over the world. Would cease to hurt our fragile place in time. Would eventually cease to exist.
Within us all is the freedom to choose be a hero, to choose to be a villain, to choose to say "no" should anyone demand we be the latter.
Within us all is the choice to turn a tragedy into a political or religious war or rather to be compassionate toward our neighbors and see a tragedy for a tragedy hurting us all the same.
Through this chaos, this confusion, the dismay and despair and hopelessness caused by the shooter in Colorado, conspiracy theories have developed, political sides have been taken, religious predictions have been reborn, and we have once again found a reason to hate one another, a reason to blame one another, a reason to declare why our side is better and more right than the other, and reason after reason to ignore the direct victims (as we are all now victims in some way) and make their trauma another excuse to fight.
There would be no conspiracies without a willing participant and a willing audience. Without a willingness to kill and to harm and to destroy the lives of children and strangers and loved ones and ourselves, and without an eagerness to see chaos and strife, there would be no puppets and the puppet masters would cease to reign over the world. Would cease to hurt our fragile place in time. Would eventually cease to exist.
Within us all is the freedom to choose be a hero, to choose to be a villain, to choose to say "no" should anyone demand we be the latter.
Within us all is the choice to turn a tragedy into a political or religious war or rather to be compassionate toward our neighbors and see a tragedy for a tragedy hurting us all the same.
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