Runner
You were created by your parents and not by anybody else. Let us understand our origin properly , then most of our misconceptions will vanish paving the way for a peaceful living.

Fanaticism caused by religion is the most important reason for the turmoil we see on this earth.

Dear Ezhil,

«You were created by your parents and not by anybody else.»

The above a classical example of confusing one's body with oneself:

What was created by the said parents is Runner's human body, not the actual one who we currently refer to as "Runner".

That which Runner truly is, beyond its appearance as a human, was never created, is not subject to time and will never be changed or destroyed.

ezhil

All human wars are between two or more ethnic groups over conquest of land and countries and the territorial survival resources they provide.

Country taking wars, civil wars,wars demanding separatist states. militia wars
are all about control. Control of land and resources.
Religions, especially the strict fundamentalist kind, don't intermarry outside their
religion, so they too become tribes or bloodlines alter 1oy 2 generations.
Religions too, constantly try to take control of countries.

The land provides everything we need as human beings to survive.
Many tribes have found themselves being genocided to the point of near extinction
after they have lost control of their land and survival resouces.

It's hard enough for human beings to provide for their children and their immediate families. This takes a lifetime of work and access to territorial resouces.
Those survival goods dont just magically appear in Woolworths stores overnight,
they are coming from the environment somewhere.,

Humans don't have the energy or resources to provide for anyone but their nearest bloodline, family, and, their tribe because of the closer relationship through generations of intermarriage.

This is simply the law of nature. The parent cells look after the young and the tribe around them who give them protection and are themselves more closely related than any other bloodline in the world.
It's the cycle of life, and our only genetic immortality on this earth.
The animals dance to this circle of biology and so do we humans and we will go to war
to defend the territory that provides for our progenies survival into the future.

We will also TAKE territory with armies too.
We may feel compassion and sadness when seeing innocent people dying in wars,
but normally, there is only a real pouring out of grief, when it is our own countrymen who die.
We do not like other big tribes on our territory. Racism is a sign of territorial hostility.
Its a biological survival instinct.
The territorial instinct, like the sexual instinct, are the two big survival instincts hard-wired into every species on earth Hence all the human warfare throughout history.

Foxy,

You are being fast and loose with the facts of the case. The aboriginal boy was riding a motorbike that had been very recently stolen. That it was picked up from a dumping site was possible but unlikely, and that Elijah immediately tried to ride away once the owner spotted him meant that he not only knew that the bike was stolen, but that he had no intention of relinquishing it.

That the owner pursued him was entirely within his rights especially given that the police seldom acted on these thefts. That the owner drove recklessly is not in dispute, but there is no evidence that he deliberately hit the thief.

That is why there is a trial by jury and not by popular opinion.

Hi Foxy, I had a read up on the Elijah case and given the outcome, one would think it must have took place in Alabama in 1962.

Hi Shadow, I doubt the perpetrator applied any of that mitigating logic of yours, not that it matters. instead he simply, malicious and willfully, ran the kid over, and killed him. This type of vigilante justice has been encouraged in the Kalgoorlie/Boulder area for sometime, the wife having posted on the vigilante 'Facebook'page “Kalgoorlie crimes whinge and whine” which contained this recommendation “We don’t encourage calling the police any more,” a post in January 2015 said. “We encourage our stronger members or members who have several males in the house to sort it out themselves”. The perpetrator admitted "the adrenaline was pumping" as he pursued the boy. This bloke tried to apply vigilante justice and given the outcome, should be serving a much longer sentence.

Hypothetical: I wounder if you would be applying that mitigating logic of yours, if it had been, instead of a young Aboriginal boy on the bike, it had been, say... Prince Harry. Would the outcome have been the same. I doubt it.

Paul,

If Prince Harry was fleeing the site of a crime on a stolen motorbike and died by misadventure in the process I would not care a jot more, and if an aboriginal man had run down a white child, I guess that you would be suggesting community service?

Elijah's death was a tragedy and should not have happened, but Elijah is far from blameless and it was his theft of the bike that set in motion the chain of events that led to his demise.

That the owner of the bike drove recklessly is not in dispute, but the claim that he deliberately drove over the boy is pure conjecture on your part and the jury found no compelling evidence either. That you want him convicted without evidence because he is white and you want restitution for other perceived crimes is in itself racist.