{"id":3252,"date":"2021-03-02T11:51:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/consistent-life.org\/blog\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2021-03-02T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:51:27","slug":"not-ok-to-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consistent-life.org\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/03\/02\/not-ok-to-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Let us all agree on this one simple thing: It is not OK to kill people."},"content":{"rendered":"

by Robert Randall (reprinted)<\/p>\n

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\"\"It is not OK to kill people because you don\u2019t like them.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they don\u2019t like you.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are different from you.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because of what they believe.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because of what they don\u2019t believe.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because they believe differently than you do.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are wrong.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because of who or what they are.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are male.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people\u00a0because they are female.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because they are any other gender or genders or gender-less.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are straight.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr gay,\"\"<\/p>\n

\u200bOr bi.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr\u00a0trans.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people before they are born.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people after they are born.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill\u00a0children. \u00a0Or\u00a0young people. \u00a0Or middle-aged people. \u00a0Or old people.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are disabled in any way.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are a different race.<\/p>\n

\u200bIt is not OK to kill people because they are aboriginal.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because they are white.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u200bOr because they are black.\u00a0\u00a0BLACK LIVES MATTER.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because they are yellow.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because they are brown.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because they are red.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because they are any other color or shade or race or ethnicity.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they were born in a different place than you.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are from a different country.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are Chinese.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr Russian.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr American.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr Iraqi.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr Ukrainian.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr Afghan.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr Sudanese.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr Yemeni.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr from any of 190\u00a0other countries.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr without a country.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people by refusing them asylum or refugee status.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people by deporting them.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are a different ethnicity than you.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are native people.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u200bOr Kurds.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr Chechens.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr Hutu.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr Karen.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr Anglo.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr Armenian.<\/p>\n

Or Uighur.<\/p>\n

Or\u00a0Rohingya.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr any of thousands of ethnic groups or tribes or cultures.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they have a different religion than you do.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are Hindu.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because they are not Hindu.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are Muslim.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because they are not Muslim.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are Christian.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because they are not Christian.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are Jewish.<\/p>\n

\u200b\"\"Or Sunni.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr Shia.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr Catholic.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr Protestant.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr Buddhist.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr any brand or subset of any of those things.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr any of hundreds of other faiths and religions.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because they are not any particular one of those.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because they are none of those.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people for any \u201creligious\u201d reason whatsoever.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people even if God tells you to kill people.<\/p>\n

\u200bThat is never the voice of God.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people if some religious leader tells you to do so.<\/p>\n

\u200bThat is not the voice of God, either.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people if some political leader tells you to do so.<\/p>\n

\u200bThat is not the voice of God,\u00a0either.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people if your country tells you to do so.<\/p>\n

\u200bYour country is not God, either.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people even if you are ordered to do so.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people even if you are in a uniform.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people who are in a uniform which is different from yours.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people even if it\u2019s your job. \u00a0Leave that job.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are targeted.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people even if they are \u201ccollateral damage.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because their politics\u00a0are\u00a0different than yours.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr their economics.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are liberal. \u00a0Or conservative.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are capitalists.<\/p>\n

\u200b\"\"Or socialists.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr communists.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr libertarians.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr\u00a0Georgists.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr\u00a0federalists.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr one\u00a0worlders.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr decentralists.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr anything else you may describe them as.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are rich.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are poor.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people by making them poor.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people who are nationalists.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people who renounce nationalism.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people who are patriots, no matter to which country.<\/p>\n

And it is not OK to kill people who are citizens only of the world.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people.<\/p>\n

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It is not OK to kill people because of what they do. \u00a0Or did.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because of what they might do.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because of what they didn\u2019t do.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr because of what they won\u2019t do.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people even if you think they deserve it.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill bad people.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people who kill people.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people who won\u2019t kill people.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are in a gang.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr not in a gang.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr in the wrong gang.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people while breaking the law.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people while enforcing the law.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they are terrorists.<\/p>\n

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It is not OK to kill people,\u00a0because we become the thing we are trying to kill.<\/p>\n

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It is not OK to kill people no matter who you are.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people if you are a \u201cregular guy\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people if you are a \u201cbig man\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people if you are a warlord.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people if you are a religious leader.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people if you head a large corporation.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people if you head a country.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people even if you head the\u00a0most powerful country on earth.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people even if you are a great international statesman.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people.<\/p>\n

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\"\"It is not OK to kill people with your bare hands.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people with sticks and stones.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people with knives and swords.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people with guns.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people with poison.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people by medical procedure.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people with tanks.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people with lethal injections.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people with pathogens.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people with airplanes and bombs.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people with missiles.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people with drones.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people with nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people with anything, no matter how creative you may be.<\/p>\n

And it is not OK to build things to kill people.<\/p>\n

Nor is it OK to kill people by denying them the things needed for life:<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people by denying them adequate food.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people by denying them adequate health care.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people by denying them adequate shelter.<\/p>\n

It is simply not OK to kill people.<\/p>\n

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It is not OK to kill people for fun.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people for entertainment.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people to stand your ground.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people for revenge.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people for justice.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people for democracy.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because you are at war.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people to keep the peace.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people in a revolution.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people for the greater good.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people for profit.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people for business purposes.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because they have something you want.<\/p>\n

\u200bIt is not OK to kill people for their land.<\/p>\n

\u200bIt is not OK to kill people for their resources.<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200bFor water.<\/p>\n

For trees.<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200bFor oil.<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200bFor gold.<\/p>\n

\u200b\u200bFor uranium.<\/p>\n

And it is not OK to kill people because of what you have that they want, either.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people with pollution.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people by environmental destruction.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people by changing the climate.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people by killing the planet.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people.\u00a0\u00a0Or to kill the web of life on which people depend.<\/p>\n

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It is not OK to kill people for your own honor.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people for family honor.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people for national honor.<\/p>\n

\u200bThere is no honor in killing people.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people because of some great wrong done in the past.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people yourself.<\/p>\n

And\u00a0it is not OK to have someone else do the killing for you.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill by gang.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill by mob.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill by thugs.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr death squads.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr people\u2019s revolutionary army.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr militia.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr army.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr navy.<\/p>\n

\u200bOr air force.<\/p>\n

Or space force.<\/p>\n

It is not OK to kill people\u00a0using\u00a0other groups of people.<\/p>\n

And it is not OK to tell them it\u2019s OK to do it.<\/p>\n

And it is not OK to train them to do it.<\/p>\n

And it is not OK to tell them to do it.<\/p>\n

\"\"And it is not OK to pay them to do it.<\/p>\n

\u200bIt is not OK to pay them directly to kill.<\/p>\n

\u200bIt is not OK to pay them indirectly to kill.<\/p>\n

\u200bIt is not OK to pay taxes to kill.<\/p>\n

\u200bIt is not OK to invest in killing people.<\/p>\n

Because it is not OK to kill people.<\/p>\n

It is\u00a0simply\u00a0not OK to kill people.<\/p>\n

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Let us all agree on this one simple thing:\u00a0It is not OK to kill people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Revision Date Nov. 1, 2020. \u00a0This work is not copyrighted. \u00a0It may be used and abridged as needed to promote its ethic that IT IS NOT OK TO KILL PEOPLE. \u00a0It may NOT be changed in any way to indicate that it might ever be OK to kill people.\u00a0\u00a0For more information or electronic copies contact Robert Randall, 275 Andy\u00a0Tostensen\u00a0Road, Brunswick, GA 31523-6204 USA; 912-399-4862; \u00a0rrandall@compuserve.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Robert Randall (reprinted)   It is not OK to kill people because you don\u2019t like them. It is not OK to kill people because they don\u2019t like you. It is not OK to kill people because they are different from you. It is not OK to kill people because of what they believe. \u200bOr… <\/p>\n