Jeremy Simmons: The Blog

Have you every heard someone say something like

"One man with a club is a hooligan. A thousand men with clubs are a regiment."

or maybe

"Kill one man, and you're a murderer; Kill a thousand men and you're a conquerer"

I'm not so sure this is a correct approach to life on any level. Is a man with a club, still only a hooligan in any amount? Have you not simply identified a group of 1000 hooligan's. On the same tangent, have you not just given that murderer the pardon for 999 murders, because now you consider him to be a conquerer.

Take a stand. Speak the truth. A conquerer is no more than a serial or mass murderer, and a mob is no more than a 'bunch' of hooligans who have mutually accepted eachother's wrongness.

When you see your fellow man try to excuse their own or another's inadequecy or faults because they have joined 'mainstream' or 'the norm', call them on it. There are still absolute truths that dictate a moral society.