Suicide bombings are not a part of American culture, and without the cultural reference, the America mind is highly puzzled by this seeming lack of value of life. Yet the few who have died in bombings are nothing compared to the number of abortions that happen each year in the United States. Death and mayhem is denounced by Americans with regard to actions in the middle east, but completely overlooked by most when it comes to the destruction of human life within the womb.
What is the motivation for killing? What is the logic? These are actually two different elements. Motivations in blowing oneself up can be very personal. First in countries were those with disability and illness disengages them with their culture and their own family, these people are the walking dead. They are shame, they are pariah. In order to bring about some support for their families, they often agree to end their miserable existence in order to win some honor or a nice cash payment for their families. In Afghanistan, it is reported that over 80% of suicide bombers are disabled or sick individuals.
Here are some reasons suicide bombers might give to the press if they were questioned before their fatal actions: Bereavement, grief, revenge, altruism, or vengeance. At the heart of many of these motivations is feelings of personal harm, injustice and personal suffering. But religious and nationalistic reasons also give motivation to many. This changes the motivation from personal to communal.
Nearly all societies and in all religions suicide is regarded as deviant behavior. It is usually expected that suicide is connected to mental instability. That’s why American don’t get the reasons people would kill themselves like they do regularly in Israel. The whole group think thing is totally incomprehensible to Westerners.
What about abortion. What is the motivation for a woman getting an abortion? Feelings dominate this area. Women feel they aren’t ready for a child or that they are mature enough. They are afraid that they can’t be good mothers. The reasons are more along the lines of conflicts they have. They believe another child or the child would interfere with their relationships, or that they won’t be able to go to school or that their partner doesn’t want a child. Abortions outnumber adoptions in the U.S.A by 10 times each year, so you can see that a line divides motivation from reason.
Two issues come to mind. First is the fact that adoption which use to be the communal response to unwanted pregnancy has dropped. The other issue that says “pick me” is the narcissistic justification which labels the child as a fetus and not a human being.
Both suicide and abortion cross the line of sanctity of life – the line where humans can justifiably be snuffed out to benefit someone or the community. The only rationale I can see for that is for eliminating violent criminals, murderers, hardcore rapists and the like. On one hand we have westerners who chosen to have children or not based on whether it is convenient to them at that stage of life. They murder their unborn children to ensure they have no interruptions in their paths. The suicide bombers on the other hand give up all their own pleasures of life to kill themselves for a cause. These civilians turned soldiers take the courage to do something for the community they support; which is the altruistic reason for their deaths. The big difference to me is that one chosing to kill others as a human bomb is a decision – the community could be moral and say that is unacceptable, but is America’s culture so sick that they can say, it’s okay to kill you own children, and then protect the murders right to do that? Talk about victims taking the blame. Woman and men having sex should take the responsibility of bearing children if they don’t use contraception. Take responsibility like the suicide bomber.
Calling all Virgins
In my book all senseless deaths are horrid. The God in heaven doesn’t hand out virtues and awards to women for killing their babies; neither does the Almighty hand out 72 virgins – there is no sex or birth in heaven. They say that when one loses their empathy towards other people that they can and will do horrible things to others. Women who have aborted their children probably walk around with a big black stain of guilt for killing their children. Known of us knows what happens to know what really happens to the souls of those unborn, and certainly a just God doesn’t let murders into heaven regardless of what political cause.
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