on tempers and those who abuse them ~

[lookingland]

i can understand anger. i know what rage feels like. i know what murderous rage feels like.

i also know inflicting that anger on others (even, so help me, if they deserve it) is wrong wrong wrong. not to mention it's an enormous waste of energy and poison to the soul.

so i don't understand law suits and revenge and all of that masquerading as justice. it's really so so weak. people say: so and so is a hero, so and so stood up to the man, to the system, to the whatever.

rosa parks refusing to give up her seat on a bus is heroic. that's standing up to the man.

hiring a lawyer to get millions of dollars in "damages" for something irreplaceably lost (or just ludicrous) is cowardice. it's small. it's putting a price on your dignity. it's a totally warped sense of the value of human life.

ooo ~ heavy thoughts for the morning.

~ * ~

i stopped short of finishing Snow Angels last night (it's a small book). it took a rather unexpected turn and i was hooked for a while. again, O'nan's a swell writer (with a rather unfortunate name ~ geh).

i've got six scripts to write and the dog is nagging for something ~ who knows what. i oughta take them to the park today. the weather looks okay ~ grey with a little wind. dunna like the wind. that's what makes it feel cold. still, a romp in the park seems the order of the day.

er ~ soon as i get some of this work done.

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Comments

[sistermeg.livejournal.com]

i was thinking on similar themes this morning as I heard that the lawyers for sex-abuse victims refused another settlement offered by the archdiocese.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

you know ~ that's not what provoked the comment, but that's one area i find the rant readily applicable.

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