I want to undo anything that shoots.
Gunpowder. TNT. Guns. Nuclear power. Anything that makes guns, modern weapons, and modern warfare possible. No landmines, howitzers, or automatic weapons.
I’m okay with knives, swords, maces, bludgeons, ropes, and other weapons of personal, intimate destruction. I want to eliminate everything that blows up, shoots, explodes, or kills from a distance — or en mass.
If you want to kill someone, you’ll have to do it face-to-face. Up close and personal. If you want to kill someone, stand up and fight. Beat him up. Have a knife fight. Gore is fine, but the blood will spray on you, too.
You can’t kill anyone from a distance. You can’t site your target with a sniper rifle from a rooftop. No sniper rifles exist. Not even a pistol.
Since I have this power to undo what has been done — and I’m sure there’s time travel involved here — if you try to work around this, I’ll take away your bows-and-arrows too.
Behave yourselves and don’t run with scissors. It’s okay to stab your neighbor with a pair or beat his or her head in with a bat because hey, we’re human. Killing are us.
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SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
Going viral wouldn’t help. In fact someone would probably shoot you for being so disrespectful.
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There are worse things to die for. Well, maybe not.
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My only wish would be for this post to go viral.
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Nothing I’ve ever written has gone even close to viral. Done well, sometimes, but viral? Nah.
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It deserves it though.
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I’m with you there, Marilyn. We don’t need to hunt for our dinner any more.
Leslie
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I feel guilty for eating meat. I once spent a considerable amount of time wondering if I could kill someone even if they were trying to kill ME. I still don’t know. I have a feeling I would probably not do it. I think it’s not in me.
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Let’s hope we are never put to the test. I don’t know how I’d fare either.
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at least it’s fair game…….sort of 🙂
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I figure if you have to get personal about killing, you might be more reluctant to do it. I could be wrong about that.
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We could only hope so
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I agree with you, Marilyn… depersonalising killing may make it ‘easier’… but it doesn’t make it right.
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No, it doesn’t. But at least if we made it less easy and especially, less easy to do it in batches.
There has been so much carnage in recent years. I think if they didn’t get to do it from a rooftop 1000 yards away and had to get down, dirty, and personal … there might be less. Maybe I’m wrong but I’d like to think it would at least slow the bastards down.
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It is a discussion I have had myself. The ability to kill without looking your opponent in the eye… even from a nice, safe bunker hundreds of miles away… has changed the nature of warfare and, perhaps, conscience.
I cannot help but be reminded that Hitler used the same techniques of dehumanisation during the Holocaust…
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If you don’t see the people you kill as living humans … it’s just an idea. Maybe a cartoon.
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Yep…
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I get a guilty conscience if I tread on an insect by mistake. We had a human animal in Switzerland this week that injured six people with an axe, a 17 year old.
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I often wonder what is wrong with our species. We are so broken.
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“Killing are us.” So much for “Thou shalt not kill.”
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Well, I think we are one of maybe two animals on earth that kills for any reason other than self-defense or food. Go figure, right?
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