Glorified Suicide

I just watched "Der Untergang". Quite an impressive movie, I must say I've never seen a film with so many suicides. The pride that some people take in ending their lives, as some code of honour. The samurai also had a similar thing going on, called Bushido, in which they had to commit suicide when they had brought shame to themselves, and with that, to their family name.

It's an interesting subject, suicide. I personally don't see this as an act of honour. Although I would make a distinction between suicide, and sacrifice. Of course the usefulness of a particular sacrifice is debatable, the act itself still comes from a totally different space than the one of suicide. Suicide has more to do with not wanting to live in a specific situation, whereas sacrifice is about wanting to change a situation, even if it means your own death. I would almost say the former is selfish, the latter is not, but it's not so simple the way I see it.

Thing is, when you kill yourself, you take away your future, your destiny. You can argue that killing yourself might have been your destiny, but I see destiny as a force that moves things; there is no movement in ending your own life. Also, more importantly, consider this: When you kill yourself, you have no more chance of clearing up any of your bad karma in this life. What does that mean? That you leave yourself a big bill of bad karma for the next life.

The beauty of getting second chances is, that people can really redeem themselves for whatever things they did in the past. This is why death penalties are plain wrong, and add nothing to the development of humanity. On the contrary; it only slows it down. Even worse is that people actually watch this happen, like it's a theatre! Yea let's watch the bad guy get killed, all our sadness is gone now! Our beloved is dead, but so is the murderer! Wow, talk about ignorance.

People should stop thinking that we have the right to avenge ourselves. Vengeance is a choice, but not a right. You can do whatever you want, but if you think vengeance will set you free, you are direly mistaken, and you will pay the same price as the one who you wish to inflict upon. Why? Because we are not God, we don't have any 'right' to do this or that. Trust me, people who do bad things will be taken care of; they will have to face themselves one day and they will have to set it right, or suffer endlessly. We don't need to make bad people suffer; they'll suffer enough already when they realize what they've done. Besides, we shouldn't take away their chance to set things right again.

All rights are made up, as the constitution is made up. There are no rights, there's only the illusion of having rights. Sounds bad? I think it's great! Makes me feel free. I don't need any smartass telling what I can or cannot do just because he wrote it on a piece of paper. So I prefer anarchy then? Well, there's gotta be anarchy before the tyranny can end. Destruction creates space for new creation; it is the way of things.

The night is darkest before the dawn.