Rape

I know I haven’t written much this past week, mostly cause I’ve been working so much, which means I’ve had a bit more time to think than normal. So I think perhaps I’ll try to play catch-up here.

As I said in my last entry, I’ve been listening to the talk radio stations a lot lately, so I’ve had much more than my share of the Iraq deal. Personally, I think we should go take out Saddam and his buddies right now.

I’ve heard all the snippets of speeches by UN people, and they all keep saying how we need to find a “peaceful resolution” to this whole deal (which is really their way of saying “I have no balls and am afraid of war”). Now that may sound good and make peace protesters feel like they’re justified in all those pointless protests going on all over, that IS NOT the purpose of UN resolution 1441. The UN resolution 1441 says NOTHING about trying to preserve peace in Iraq or in the Middle East. The UN resolution ONLY deals with the topic of disarming Iraq, which as Saddam has proved, many times, that he is not willing to do himself.

Last night I was talking with my friend Jen and she asked “Why do we Americans feel like the rest of the world needs to be like us?” I was going to try and answer it, but she had to go, so I’ll answer it here.

Ever since America actually became a country, we have been one of the major superpowers in the world (and today we’re really the only one left). Every time in the past 100 years or so that there has been a conflict somewhere in the world, people have come to the US and asked for help. When nations have had faltering economies, they’ve come to the US for help. After World War II when people felt the need for an international governing body, they came to the US to help set up the United Nations. When countries are in crisis, they come to the US for help.

And you know what? We help them. We send troops all over the world and have fought wars in the name of “keeping the peace” and helping the underdog. We have sent billions and billions of dollars that came from OUR pockets to help boost the economies of other countries. Not only did we help set up the UN, we also helped set up NATO (both of which are jokes and are powerless when it comes to doing anything besides talking about problems). We have sent billions of dollars and many, many people to countries or areas in crisis in an effort to help people (such as the billions Bush is sending to Africa to help combat a problem they brought on themselves by being too horny and not doing enough to have “safe” sex).

I think that the fact that the world looks to us and expects so much from us is reason enough for us to be able to expect that other nations do things our way and become more like us. I think that if other nations feel they can expect us to come flying to their rescue when they get their butt in a sling, we have every right to expect them to deal with us, be our friend, and change in whatever way we think they should in order to make their society prosper as we’ve done with our own. Like it or not, we had to do something right to become the most powerful nation in the world, I don’t see anything wrong with trying to get other nations to be like us in an effort to make them stand on their own and stop nursing from the US.

TOPIC CHANGE. I finally figured out why my parents and I very rarely see eye to eye on things. Much to my surprise, I don’t think it has to do (at least not directly) with the fact that they’re old, and thus old fashioned. The reason my parents and I seldom see things the same is because they look at everything from the “Is it right or wrong, or good or bad” perspective. Whereas I don’t look at anything like that because I really don’t care about right or wrong, or “good” or “bad,” I just do what I want and don’t see a need to justify what I do.

That said, I don’t think that there is really anything anyone can do to help any of us see things from the other people’s viewpoint. I’m not going to start trying to figure out if things are “good” or “bad” or “right” or “wrong” because as I’ve said, I really don’t care. I don’t really have any morals to fall back on to try and judge anything by anyways, and I’m sure not going to try and borrow my parent’s set of morals. Likewise, my parents have held tight to their values for too long to be able to see things any other way. Thus, we are doomed to see very few things eye to eye.

Oh well.

Now onto yet another subject. This is something I was thinking about one day last week. I was driving and thinking and got home and looked up a word to see if my suspicions were right.

I’ve said for a long time that having children is a selfish thing to do. If asked why they have children, people can very seldom answer without saying something to the effect of “I” or “we” wanted one (unless it’s an “accident” in which case they were still selfish because they wanted to have sex and didn’t think of the consequences).

So because THEY want to have kids and be parents, people force children to be born into the same world full of crap that they themselves have to live in. They doom yet another person to the same mortal existence that the rest of us have to deal with. And to top it off, people celebrate when the kids are born.

So here’s one of the definitions of the word that came to my mind when I was thinking about this; “an act or instance of robbing or despoiling or carrying away a person by force.” In other words, forcing your will upon them. Know what word that a definition of? Rape.

Yes, I think that is a very fitting word. By forcing children to be born and damning them to the same existence as the rest of us, simply because the parents desire children, the parents are unknowingly committing rape. True, the child has no will before they are born, but the parents assume that the child will be better off if it’s born than if it isn’t, and NO parent is in a position to make a knowledgeable judgment since none of them can see the future. Thus, I don’t think anyone is qualified to be a parent.

I suppose some might wonder what we should do then. We have to procreate and carry on the species, don’t we?

Do we? I wonder. Would it hurt the earth or the environment if mankind stopped reproducing and committed self-extinction? No (and I’m no tree hugger, so don’t even think about it. I’m all for global warming and pollution). Would the universe miss humanity if we all disappeared? Doubt it. Would any of us really care, after we’re all dead, if there are no more people left? Probably not since we will be dead.

That’s why I’m never having kids. I refuse to bring someone else into this world and into this existence. I will not rape, or force my will, on someone that I would care very much about.

If I could ever start a cult, I think I’d start a no-procreation cult. I think that’d be cool, and would be a vast improvement on the way things are.

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“I hurt myself today

To see if I still feel

I focus on the pain

The only thing that’s real

The needle tears a hole

That old, familiar sting

Try to kill it all away

But I remember everything

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What have I become?

My sweetest friend

Everyone I know

Goes away in the end

You can have it all

My empire of dirt

I will let you down

I will make you hurt.”

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NIN