Sam Hammil’s view of how to change the violence in today’s society and past is ridiculous. He is presuming that all humanity can come to a point of certainty about love. He is saying that everyone, if they try, can have enough “compassion” in their heart to overcome the “batterers” of the world. But then he goes on to defend the people in jail saying that they need to be saved too. He’s saying that people can be saved, when in reality we cannot save them. They made a choice; he says that people lash out because they don’t know how to express their love. This is such a stupid statement because people know when they are hurting each other, people don’t sit around and go, “Oh, gee, I wonder why I just hit her?” NO! It’s because the fool was drunk and he was pissed off and he is taking on his anger. Not because he doesn’t know how to express himself.
He absurdly assures us that we can through “compassion” somehow change the world. He refers to Japan and how he served there. Does he not remember how the war started? Does he not know what happened on December 7, 1941? WE WERE BOMBED! My Grandpa was there he was almost blown in half and his best friend WAS blown into pieces. We were not even involved in the war; we were trying to stay out of it. But no, Japan attacked first, they wanted us to enter the war and they were totally prepared to take us over. That is why we attacked back, that is why we dropped a nuke on them. It was to save lives on both sides. If we had invaded their country they were totally prepared to fight until no one was left.
Does Mr. Hammil understand or even know what their government was made up of? It was the Emperor and whatever he said went. He thought that he was so “holy” that he had never touched the ground with his actual feet. He was always elevated and people lived to serve him and his legacy. Now can you tell me how that is compassion? Can you tell me that if Mr. Hammil had gone up to him and told him he was wrong and that he should be more compassionate on others, that the Emperor would have listened? I don’t think so. This view of the world and how to solve it’s problems are stupid. It would never work. However, look at Japan today. They have a democracy they can do what they want without asking an Emperor if it’s ok. That is what we brought them; in essence we died so THEY could have it.