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Human beings will do anything.
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Anything.
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I am convinced.
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That's why when all those beheadings started in Irak...
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Didn't bother me. [???]
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Lot of people here were horrified: "Aaah, beheadings! Beheadings!"
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What? You're fucking surprised?
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Just one more of form of, er, [extreme?] human behaviour.
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Besides who cares about some mercenary civilian contractor
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from Oklahoma who gets his head cut off?
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Fuck'em. Fuck'em.
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Hey Jack, you don't want your head cut off?
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Stay the fuck in Oklahoma...
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Stay the fuck in Oklahoma.
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They ain't cutting off heads in Oklahoma...
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... As far as I know.
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But I do know this: you strap on a gun and go strutting around some other men's country,
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you'd better be ready for some action, Jack.
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You'd better be ready for some action.
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People are touchy about that sort of thing.
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Now, let me ask you this while I have you good clean americans here...
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This is a moral question, not rhetorical, I'm looking for the answer.
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What is the moral difference between
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cutting off one guy's head... or two, or three, or five, or ten,
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and dropping a big bomb on an hospital and killing a whole bunch of sick kids?
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Has anybody in authority given you an explanation of the difference?
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I haven't got an email on this. No one [???], I haven't got a postcard, I haven't got a fucking instant message.
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Nothing.
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Now, in case you're wondering why I have a certain interest and fascination, let's call it,
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with torture and beheadings and all these things I've mentioned.
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It's because each of these items reminds me, in life...
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Every time, I, one of them occurs, reminds me over and over again
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what beast, we human beings really are.
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You know, when you get right down to it...
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... when you get right down to it,
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human beings are nothing more than ordinary jungle beasts, savages.
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No different from the Cro-Magnon people who lived 25'000 years ago
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on a place [???] seeking grubs off rotten logs.
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No different. Our DNA hasn't changed substantially in a 100'000 years.
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We're still operating out of the lower brain, the reptilian brain:
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fight or flight, kill or be killed.
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Now, we like to think we've evolved and advanced
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because we can build a computer, fly an airplane, travel underwater,
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we can write a sonnet, paint a painting, compose an opera but you know something,
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we're barely out of the jungle on this planet, barely out of the fucking jungle.
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What we are is somehow civilized beasts with baseball caps and automatic weapons.
