by Steve Kitchen

Created on: November 21, 2009

Murder belongs to evil men. They murder to gain possessions. They do it to gain power. They use it to eliminate resistance to their will. The victims are people who, in the course of their normal lives, gained something that the murderer wants, or believes or knows something that threatens the murderers power. The victim stands in the way of the murderers evil desire and thus must be eliminated. Victims are never fathers, mothers, sons or daughters. They have no hopes or dreams or desires. Their lives are just in the way and must be ended.

The whole idea is sickening and makes you sorry that man is capable of such cruel and selfish things. We each know from first hand experience how sweet and precious is the gift of life. But some are not so empathetic as to let that stand in the way of what they desire. They are the most important person in their lives and in the whole world. Yes, murder is the supreme act of the selfish and the greedy. How much more can a person suffer from greed as to end all someone has ever been and all they will ever be, to gain something for themselves?

Killing belongs to men. I will not go so far as to say it belongs to good men for not every truly good man is capable of it. Killing belongs to the father who's wife was raped and murdered. The murderer saw his need for sex as more important than a woman, wife and mothers need to live. She simply existed to offer him a few moments of pleasure. All her parents efforts and love in raising her and all of her life before was only a passing of time to get to this moment where she could provide a few moments pleasure and then be discarded.

This murderer asks to be killed. He needs to be killed. Like a sick person needs a doctor, the murderer is sick with greed and the prescription is a killing. A good man struggles against the revulsion of taking another mans life but in the end it was not a struggle against anything as much as it was giving in to what he knew was right all along.

He takes the murderers life and, in so doing, commits the same act as the murderer. He removed life from another human being. Has he become the very thing he has tried to destroy?

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