[smoyer]

Why is the post about the morality of killing for fun getting up-voted? This community, at this instance in time seems to be against it.

A funny story from when I was younger ... there was a candidate running for County Commissioner who lived in my neighborhood and had a local auto-parts store. County Commissioners are paper pusher yet for some reason, as if his position mattered, someone asked whether he was for or against the death penalty. His answer was "regular or extra crispy". This was when the electric chair was still in use ... and there was one about 10 miles from where I'm sitting. I already knew he was a little "out-there" but this statement alone kept him from being elected. While we'd had three horrible commissioners, this statement made him seem "more horrible".

It's interesting in thinking about it that I've found this story more and more disturbing as I've gotten older. Being an introvert and being raised as a stoic german (by descent at least) meant that I've had to grow my ability to empathize through experience. My son was opposed to the death penalty before I was. I might even still have caveats.

[loco5niner]

This is about killing flies. No qualms here.

[smoyer]

Yes ... I have no qualms about killing flies either. All I was getting at is that a) even back then there was a line you could cross as shown by this candidate and b) that my personal views on killing have changed.