Jun 28, 2013 5:45 PM

Here's the thing Carl... The REASON I get to strut around looking down my nose as if I'm better than you, is because I AM! It's not because of any "Title" I may possess. :P

Things would be a LOT easier if I didn't have empathy. If I had never known love, or what it is to love, I would have a large body count, and no connection to me.

I'd be a VERY good "Violent Criminal", and everything the police say about me would be true...

...but I'm not. I'm an honest ethical man who wields too much power, and hates a lot of people.

Good men don't NEED "rules". Try to figure out why I have so many. I'm honest and ethical because I am NOT a "good" man. I am descended from, and am the by-product of pure evil. The Noble Lie of "Manifest Destiny" is why I am even alive... There is nothing "Good" abut that.

I look at the horrors my ancestors inflicted, and I am disgusted and ashamed... But it is also where I came from. I NEVER forget that.

I KNOW I would enjoy slitting the throat of a loved one in front of Douglas Levitt, but that loved one never did anything to me. I can't form the intent to harm somebody who has never sought to harm me. I just can't. The horrifying part was something I inherited from my ancestors. It is just there. It just a part of me, in the same way grief never goes away. It just becomes part of you.

It's not who I am though. The day I said, "I don't want to play", was the day that I became Who I am. The "majority" meant me harm from that moment forward.

Whenever you wield power, the ethical considerations are paramount.