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We,The People, are not happy
4 - Sadomasochism
Have you ever decided to keep driving instead of stopping to get gas? There was no need to take a chance that could cause a lot of trouble, but you did .
Sadomasochism is a motivation waiting for an opportunity to manifest itself. You can find it in any race, country, or religion. It can appear at every level of a society, from the daily life of individuals to the geopolitics of governments.
The source of the disease is not clear. Epicurus, Plato and Aristotle talked about it. Masochism is still there. It seems to influence the soul like stress produces an ulcer. Consider it to be part of human nature. In the Middle Ages (not long ago in human history) we used the excuse that people made a mistake to torture them. We put aside, for a while, the idea of loving our neighbor to make them suffer as much as possible for as long as possible. The practice was not limited to some century and some location. It was done all over the world for as long as historians can remember. Chances are that it is in everybody’s DNA, civilized or not.
It was the Torture Olympics. Spectators paid to get better places with a better view. There was a need for diversity. Search ‘torture’ and you will discover more ways to make people suffer than you can imagine. Today, we also have introduced mass production. We can kill people by the thousands by pressing a button. We have reached a point where our need for sadomasochism would kill both, the executioner and the victim. This is not what we had in mind. The goal was to recreate for the spectators the feelings of watching the lion eating somebody alive. You cannot replace that by pressing a button. We use violence on TV, guns, car crashes and violent sports but still have not found a way to satisfy our need for sadomasochism without going to war or using torture. Human sadomasochism needs improvements. We put aside religious beliefs of loving our neighbors to let the Inquisition relieve a burst of sadomasochism. The message was to look for God inside ourselves. All we can find outside is people like us, who could not find themselves inside.
We found a way to make it legal and civilized. A majority can impose its way of thinking on a minority instead of letting people free to live their lives as long as they don’t hurt somebody else. To impose our way of thinking on others is to steal some of their freedom. This is a felony!
Laws are necessary to life in society but laws are replacing some freedom with some rules. Abusing the laws can lead to sadomasochism. “Use but don’t abuse”.
