philosophy

Paying the price and other thoughts

Life is a collage of the mundane and the profound;
I find it hard to say which I enjoy more.

For every achievement in life, there is always a price to be paid;
I admire those who pay it themselves and encourage others to help them.
I pity those who expect others to pay it for them.
I detest those who forces the price for their achievements upon others.

Life is not an abstraction

I just saw the critically acclaimed Danish move ‘Drabet’ (Drab is the term for voluntary manslaughter in Danish) by Per Fly, one of our best filmmakers here in Denmark, and it is one of those films that makes you think.

The film revolves around the killing of a Danish police officer by a group of left-wing “activists” – the officer is killed after the three has razed a (fictitious) arms producer

The film contains a scene where one of the characters tries to relativise the killing of the policeman to Iraqi children struck with cancer due to American usage of depleted uranium weapons and

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