On Being Human and the Art of the Bitch Slap
Posted on 2006-03-21 at 08:10
What is with people who don't want to help others?
I understand not wanting to help them in the wrong way. I get that. My familial history drove that point deep into my skull years ago. But at all?!?
What is it that makes a human being lose that most basic drive---empathy? What emotional callouses allows a person look at the suffering of others and say "I'm cool with that"?
Sometimes I wish I could be given special dispensation to bitch slap those who need it. It might help.
The Iraqis had it coming! *bitch slap*. Who cares about runaways? *bitch slap*. Poor people are only poor because they are lazy. *bitch slap*. Inmates brought it on themselves, so I don't care if the conditions in our prisons are bad. *bitch slap*. Rascism is gone and black people need to get over what happened 300 years ago. *bitch slap*.
Yes, I think the bitch slap is a form on immediate punishment that should be reinstituted; a sort of Ike Turner style justice of the street. It seems to me that it would work wonders. People wouldn't say as much insensitive, ignorant crap if they thought there was a chance that they might get a red faced smack down over it. I mean, if it's good enough for the Submariner:
But I'm not the policy maker. Perhaps I should write my Senators and Congresscritter....