I read a story about Nazi
concentration camps for this World Literature class I'm taking, and it seriously makes me want to hunt down and kill a bunch of Nazis.
I remember feeling the same way when I was a kid and I first learned about all of that and the extent of their atrocities... and until now I had all but forgotten.
Back then I thought it was over, though-- that there weren't any more. Today I know differently. There are thousands, if not millions of people alive today who proudly bear swastikas and openly admit that if they had the chance they would commit these same atrocities all over again, they would.
Then I wonder-- if I could somehow round all of these people together and brutally murder them, would I not be the same as they are?
I dunno. That story was particularly horrific. Thinking about it all makes my head spin. I wonder how there is not visibly dense cloud of negative karma choking the air throughout the world, if not because of what happened, then because of all the similar genocides that have happened and CONTINUE to happen that no one even talks about.
I have such an intense desire to kill so long as I can justify it in this way. There is something incredibly satisfying about the idea of spilling the blood of a person who "deserves" it. --but the rational side of me seems to think that no one, no matter how evil, deserves to be harmed in this way.