Are you a killer, too?

The child of rage lives within us all. How close it is to the surface, how much of you it occupies, those are the differences between a peaceful person and a killer. That has less to do with the intent to kill than you'd think. The ability to wish for the discontinuation of a life may not be rare, but it is societally taboo, never spoken of, kept well hidden.


The fact that I haven't killed anyone yet doesn't fool me. I haven't got any reason (that I agree with) to lie in this matter and I just want to go on record as saying that it frightens me, the ease with which I can think of the tree of humanity as something that needs pruning.


I expect that someday a desperate idiot will put himself between someone I care about and safety, and I wish that I was sorry that there's no contest in my mind as to how that day will end.