The girl in the vid has learned a skill and is demonstrating it. Presumably she still goes to school, is well fed, is not fighting in any civil wars. Presumably, the boy in our pic is an African child-soldier who has been drafted, will be sent to fight and die, quite possibly without being as well-trained as the girl in the vid. I say "presumably", because we don't know the background of the pic. The boy COULD be a Black American child holding his father's rifle for all I know, in which case
One thing I will say about the African child(?) in the pic. For whatever bad has come or will come to him in his life, he will not be infantalized well into what used to be adulthood like most American youth of today. Robbing, raping, or murdering him or his family would be considerably more difficult for the dirtbag than it is with your typical American child.
Glorifying death and violence? What rot. Is the practice of Karate, Kenjutsu, or Kali glorifying death and violence? Or playing AHII for that matter? I am fairly anti-war myself because I know war's cost is rarely worth it, but I understand that the laws of nature remain in effect for men, that
self-defense is a natural bodily function that cannot be effectively delegated or suppressed without terrible consequences. The wolf has its fang, the scorpion has its sting, the elephant has its great size and tusks. Man, small, not fast, whose natural weapons can, at best on a good day, break the ribs or nose of another puny human being, has his mind, and the nimble hands to manipulate objects in his enviroment into sophisticated tools-ESPECIALLY weapons.
The fact that proto-men learned to make and kill with primitive weapons led directly to the life we live today. It is why our primary worry is the economy or politics or making the most of our "meager" ~65-90 years, instead of being eaten by lions or dying of disease before age 30. It has indeed been a Faustian bargain, with consequences, but what is alternative? Return to living in the trees and eating fruit until you get picked off by a leopard?
I have never seen what is so good about the ideal some men seem to profess, harmlessness towards any potential attacker. I'd hate to think our species fought its way to the top of the food chain only to evolve the mindset of a boneless, helpless, stingless jellyfish.
