lesson #44: The means don't justify the end...

with the holidays in, ive started gettin bored of nothin to do... and ive started using Youtube to watch Discovery Channel programmes... and one of the most interestin topic ive been watchin for these few days pertain to somethin ive jus recently considered to be quite controversial: future weapons.

as someone with interest in technology and science - tho without much of the brain capacity to achieve academic excellence in them - i found myself amazed at the amount of engineering precision n creativity in creating weapons... the bullet mechanism, the bullet and projectile, the versatility in extreme conditions.. they are the proof of technological excellence..

added to my liking for first-person-shooter (FPS) games, the extra knowledge about modern weapons and how they work intrigued me a lot.. these tools were the result of thousands of hours of effort, testing, and brainwork.. these tools were finely created for their purpose: to kill.

amazingly, it took some time until i realized that i was somewhat perverse enough to develop this interest in weapons.. it took another friend of mine to tell me that i was talkin to him about a killing machine.. i was actually intrigued by the sophisticated mechanism created to take another human life.. and in the background, i can barely see God squinting His eyes and murmuring, "Why in the world are YOU WOWed about killing off my other creation?? Are YOU any worth more than them?? I asked you to help Me save them, not kill them.."

and it hit me...

why, why am i interested in the various (and effective) ways in takin out a life of someone else? have my morals been so compromised to the point that i have no objections to killing? have i been so insensitive? have i got any love left for the rest of the world?..

i don't object to technological advancement.. most of us don't.. cuz in some way, it reveals how smart our Creator must be that we humans are such creative beings.. but then, that's how we are supposed to live, right? Creative... not Destructive...

and next time im gonna create somethin, or the next time im gonna say "Wow" to somethin, maybe i gotta figure out the ending that's supposed to follow it...

The means don't justify the end. So know what you're into.