Morality As Bullshit

[Anthony Crifasi]

Kenneth Johnson wrote:

"A condemnation of life by the living remains in the end a mere symptom of a 
certain kind of life [an anthonian kind -k]"

Would you prefer the following Nietzschian kind:

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"PEARL, Miss. -- Clearly the seven students were friends. Perhaps they even 
qualified as a clique, with at least some of them sharing an unusual 
interest in Nietzsche and Latin. Now the police in this suburb east of 
Jackson have charged that the students were also co-conspirators in a 
mysterious plot to murder fellow students at Pearl High School.

On Monday night and Tuesday morning, the police arrested six students, 
plucking some of them from their first-period classes, and charged them with 
conspiracy to commit murder. The arrests came less than a week after a 
rampage on Oct. 1 in which Luke Woodham, a 16-year-old student, is accused 
of walking into the school's airy, skylit commons and firing round after 
round from a hunting rifle. Woodham is charged with killing two students, 
including a former girlfriend, and wounding seven.

The police later discovered that Woodham's mother, Mary Ann Woodham, 50, had 
been stabbed to death with a butcher knife earlier that morning in the home 
she shared with her son. Woodham has been charged with her murder as well.

One of the students came to the attention of the authorities almost 
immediately after the shootings. Sledge said Woodham, upon arriving at the 
school last Wednesday, gave him notebooks of writings that seemed to include 
an explanation for the killings. Sledge provided copies of one page from the 
notebooks to several reporters.

"I am not insane," the page reads. "I am angry. I am not spoiled or lazy, 
for murder is not weak and slow-witted. Murder is gutsy and daring. I killed 
because people like me are mistreated every day. I did this to show society, 
'Push us and we will push back.' "

The page ended with a passage from Nietzsche that asked, "How shall we 
comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?"
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Anthony Crifasi

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