Why Kill the Homeless?

I don't condone violence of any kind. Unless, someone says shit about your girl or bumps into you when you are drunk. If one of these things happens to you or one of your boys, then you have to rumble. Some people have to be taught a lesson: don't bump into me when I'm drunk. Of course, I do like violence in my movies, TV, and video games. I'm a good American.

Recently, there has been an upsurge of violence against the homeless. After getting over my initial reaction of indifference, I am confused as to why one would hurt, or in some cases, kill, the homeless. What harm has the homeless person caused? At most, they are a nuisance, well at least the one's that won't stop pestering pedestrians for spare change are. I think some of them are quite well off. I used to give change to a homeless man who stood near Park Street on the Boston Common whenever I passed him because he seemed like a nice guy. He asked me my name, told me his, and was quite pleasant at making small talk. Then I realized he was starting to wear nice clothes and talked about going home. Wait, what!? I thought he was homeless. By the look of things he was probably making more money than I was, and it was all tax free. He is probably at home reading this on his laptop right now. So I stopped giving him change. He doesn't even look the part (and I don't walk by there often anymore). But, I digress..

I get it that these kids probably view the homeless as less than human, and they are giving into mob mentality and primal urges. But if part of it is about the homeless being viewed as less than human, then what about sex offenders, in particular, child molesters and rapists? They are the true monsters. Wouldn't it make more sense to direct this violence towards them? I know in some cases it has been. I know it's not a good idea, but what is worse: killing homeless people or killing serial rapists? I mean, if you had to chose the lesser of two evils? Really, I'm not an advocate of killing anyone. I don't even agree with the death penalty. Not so much because I have some innate value for life, but because of the risk of killing innocent people and the fact that killing someone via the death penalty actually costs more than keeping them in prison for life, or so I have heard.

Anyway, you know there will be some people who will blame violence in video games and in the media. I disagree. I find violent video games to be a good way for me to deal with my anger and rage towards the world. It's a good and healthy way for me to work it out of my system without hurting anyone, except for the egos of adolescent boys across the nation when I destroy them at Halo 2. Actually, they routinely destroy me. I don't have the time to play for 12 hours or more a day. I have a car to drive.

When, as a society, we have suburban wealthy teenagers succumbing to mob mentality and beating and killing homeless people, what hope is there for the human race? Not to mention all the other more severe problems we are faced with: war, poverty, disease, global warming etc. Oh right, Blue Steel is the inspiration. Point taken.

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I don't mean to make light or make fun of any of the violence that has been perpetuated against the homeless and I apologize to anyone who is offended. I think humor and making light of dark situations is what makes life bearable.