Evolving Beyond Retribution

September 29, 2009 by Dale Everett
Filed under: Anarchy in Your Head, Personal Freedom, Rant 

An open letter to activists espousing violence as a form of activism against statism.

A shepherd had a nice flock of sheep but he was endlessly frustrated because his neighbor had more sheep than him. One day he had just birthed a new lamb only to discover that his neighbor had birthed two and was even further ahead of him. He’d had it. That night and every night thereafter, he began to complain about it in his prayers.

“Lord, Manuel now has five more sheep than me. I work just as hard as him and take good care of my sheep and it’s just not fair!”

After many nights of prayers full of whining and complaining about what he perceived as a terrible injustice, he heard a clear voice in his head.

“Alright! Alright! Just stop complaining and I will help you, but only this once. Then you are on your own. I don’t want to hear another word about it!” answered the Lord.

“Oh, thank you Lord! You are truly just! So… you are going to kill five of Manuel’s sheep?”

I believe the story was meant as an analogy about far left politics and what seems like a desire to drag everyone down to an equal level of misery. It may not seem to relate to retribution, but it does address a flaw in our thinking that fuels what I see as a pointless desire for retribution.

(Read On…)

Comments

4 Comments on Evolving Beyond Retribution

    2. Paul on Tue, 29th Sep 2009 12:45 am

    Very well said.

    3. Daniel Memenode on Tue, 29th Sep 2009 2:28 pm

    Reparations ftw. Down with retribution, vengeance and punishments!

    4. theKINGofKEENE on Wed, 30th Sep 2009 7:28 pm

    It’s not that we resent the rich for the excess that they have, it’s that we just want a chance to work for, get, and keep, what’s ours. That was *SUPPOSED* to be the American Way…But structural inequalities in the “system” keep the poor poor, and the rich rich. *THAT’S* the REAL INJUSTICE! It would have been just as easy, easier, in fact, to help me keep my house, than it was to steal it from me…But crooked, corrupt, incompetent cops like Randy Tefft, Eli Rivera, Fred Parsells, crooked judges like Lane & Burke, and crooked public officials at the local, county, & state level, all conspired to create a situation where my elderly, widowed mother felt she had no other choice. Kangaroo District Court and it’s lackeys, the Keene’s Stoned Cops have well-earned my disrespect, and that’s all you’ll ever get from me…Remember, you literal motherfuckers, if you’d just let me keep my house, you wouldn’t be reading this. You have no one but yourselves to blame. Thanks, Josh Rogers, for your time today. I thought you were “pretty cool, dude”…

    5. theKINGofKEENE on Wed, 30th Sep 2009 7:39 pm

    As for Dales’ piece on Anarchy in Your Head, are you *SURE* you’re not Buddhist???…the comments were good, too. Thank-you. Keep up the good work. And, yes, I support the imminent military coup…*grin*…PRAISE GOD, and PASS THE AMMO!…*grin/grin*…

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