Definitions # #301 - #06 - The Mercenaries

Suppose somebody offered you your first job … your first real paycheck and food and shelter. All you have to do for this is to kill people. If all you’ve ever seen is killing and war, what’s the big deal!! After all, you grew up in this environment and it doesn’t seem so unusual…. It’s a “fight to the death”!

My friend you are now a “Mercenary”……

You have become a paid “killer”. You don’t care what nationality, or what race, or what religion … you are being paid to obey orders and kill anyone. By the way, prisoners are an “inconvenience”. What do you do with a prisoner? You have to feed him, house him, guard him, and provide him with many other services that you don’t enjoy yourself!! … So, don’t take any!!!
You may be called a “terrorist”, a “murderer”, a “freedom fighter”, a suicide bomber” … what do you care? You have a “job”!!!
Sometimes you are paid to kill the “innocent” … the civilian, the men, the women, and the children! So what … you have a “job”!!
And, yes, sometimes you are paid to kill other “nationals”, other people of different religious back rounds, other “specific targets”! So what …. You have a job!!

What does the “civilized world” do with people that think like this??

In the animal kingdom they are referred too as “rogue animals” … killing for killing’s sake!
They are usually “loners”, misfits… beyond normality. But what if a recognized group sees no harm in employing these people? What do you do?…And, what do you do about the people who employ these people?… And, what do you do with these “employees”!

This is the present “state of affairs”…….

In one sense, the conclusions are too obvious. It’s “them or me”! I do not think it is even perceivable to “negotiate”, “to talk”. We’re much beyond that! We cannot “negotiate or talk” our way out of this one!
These are people from a separate civilization. The world must recognize this as an “aberration”, an unfortunate “mutation”. If you have been involved in this environment for the last 30 years or more, you simply do not think like the rest of the industrialized world. Is there room for more “worlds”? Can the “industrialized” world live in the same space as “another type” of world? Can there be many different “worlds” in the space we refer to as “the World”?
If the “worlds” are kept separate and one “world” does not interfere with the other “worlds” that share the same space … then, I guess, you could “survive”. What do you do if the “worlds” begin to interfere with each other? And, what do you do with these “employees”!

This is the present “state of affairs”…. I don’t think we can talk our way around this one!!Definitions