233 - Why Humans Sacrifice
The Symbolic World
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Killing - The Ultimate Marker of a Scandalous Act
The idea that to go into something scandalous as killing another human being, and doing it as a group, becomes the ultimate marker of participating in a scandal by which we exist together. This is, of course, especially true in criminal organizations where the idea that if you are willing to kill someone in order to be part of this group, then we can trust your more than anything else. And so killing, it becomes a very powerful tool for any kind of a criminal syndicate. It offers all kinds of solutions to the problem of existing in an illegitimate and of andea in something which is illegal and something which is criminal.
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