Thou Shall Not Kill, did not say, thou shall not kill except in war , or thou shall not kill except in self-defense, or thou shall not kill to protect the life of the mother , or thou shall not kill as a sacrifice or thou shall not kill except when you can not get along, or thou shall not kill except when they believe in another religion, or thou shall not kill except well you get the idea.
Perhaps whatever was going in society many moons ago was so grotesque by our civilized standards ( oops I forgot some debates on the methods of legal state sanctioned possible killings are underway as I type this, but I digress) but something perhaps so heinous was taking place maybe light years ago that creative out of the box philosophers-mystics-griots and other crazy people thought maybe killing is not such a good idea.
I did not live thousands of years ago but today thousands of years since then we still seem to be grappling with Thou Shall Not Kill.
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