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So, a group of people all tied together by their belief in Supreme Deity are driving. They pull to a complete stop at a red light next to a vehicle containing a person who is of the religious majority. The new arrivals at the stop light are practicing their Constitutional rights to practice free speech enthusiatically but non-violently. They wait until the light turns green, obeying all traffic laws, then drive away without any harm to the other driver who remains at the [green] light about to drive away.
A semi truck driver with no prior knowledge of these peoples' views on America or their religious affiliation comes onto the scene. With disregard for traffic laws and human life, he accidentally plows through the intersection, killing everyone inside the vehicle.
This inspires the driver who was about to drive through the green light to ponder the situation. He feels no sadness at what has happened to the folks killed in the car up ahead. He feels no empathy for the psychological and legal impact on the semi truck driver who has just ended the lives of his fellow human beings. Instead, in cold disregard for anything happening around him, he thinks on what has just happened. He sees that people that did not share his viewpoints, and he would most likely never see again (if they had lived) are now dead and that he had not been the one to kill them.
He decides to ignore his religious and moral lessons taught to him throughout his life of peace and tolerance to others, and the next day to go seek employment as a truck driver. Thus enabling him to emulate his new accidental hero, the driver of the semi that killed the people he did not like for their heinous actions the other day.
He then decides to email his friends and family to let them know of the news and his decision, taking delight in phrasing the horrible events from the previous day in the form of a joke.
Today, a murderer is born.
A semi truck driver with no prior knowledge of these peoples' views on America or their religious affiliation comes onto the scene. With disregard for traffic laws and human life, he accidentally plows through the intersection, killing everyone inside the vehicle.
This inspires the driver who was about to drive through the green light to ponder the situation. He feels no sadness at what has happened to the folks killed in the car up ahead. He feels no empathy for the psychological and legal impact on the semi truck driver who has just ended the lives of his fellow human beings. Instead, in cold disregard for anything happening around him, he thinks on what has just happened. He sees that people that did not share his viewpoints, and he would most likely never see again (if they had lived) are now dead and that he had not been the one to kill them.
He decides to ignore his religious and moral lessons taught to him throughout his life of peace and tolerance to others, and the next day to go seek employment as a truck driver. Thus enabling him to emulate his new accidental hero, the driver of the semi that killed the people he did not like for their heinous actions the other day.
He then decides to email his friends and family to let them know of the news and his decision, taking delight in phrasing the horrible events from the previous day in the form of a joke.
Today, a murderer is born.