Monday, June 1, 2009

Suicide

In China, a man heavily in debt, had been contemplating suicide on a bridge. Along comes a passerby, who is upset, because the person contemplating suicide is holding up traffic. Guess what he does? He pushes the gentleman off the bridge. However, the victim survived.

"I pushed him off, because jumpers like him are very selfish. Their action violates a lot of public interest." According to documents, the victim wanted to kill himself because be had incurred debt from a failed construction project. The attempted killer was released on bail. It has been said, he's been on medication for a mental illness for decades, and was on the way to the hospital to pick up his pills.

Violence should never be condoned. Whatever happened to the human race? Are we in such a hurry that we cannot wait. We can only push people off bridges because they're holding up traffic. This incident occurred in China. In the United States, over the weekend, another senseless act of violence occurred. Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed in the lobby, in a Wichita church. Violence only begets violence. A society that turns to violence to solve it's social problems, is a society in trouble. Pretty soon everybody will be pushing everybody off bridges.

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