More Foley

I was just thinking. There have been some excerpts of an IM transcript between Foley and a Louisiana page from about two years ago. I'm sure these were one of many, but I'm curious how the IM transcripts look as a large body of work.

Here's what I mean. Given any short snippet of communication between any two people, you can give the wrong impression of anything. And, it would be interesting to see how Foley went from something casual to something more explicit.

I just read something interesting. There were several Amish girls that were shot and killed. The killer committed suicide. The reaction of the Amish? They wanted to console the family of killer. The article claims that Americans are so much into vengeance, that they think it's inappropriate to have any other thought, that it shows a lack of love if you can't imagine killing someone for love.

A good example of revenge mentality comes from Dead Man Walking where the parents of a girl who was killed, possibly by Sean Penn's character, can't imagine forgiving the killer, mainly because in their mind, he is reprehensible, and the daughter is lovely, and that it's not fair that he should live while she doesn't. Even if it's seen as un-Christian, they'd rather be un-Christian.

That's an intriguing thought, because it makes me wonder whether religion's attempts to make better people out of us all still fails because people honestly can't be as good as possible, and ultimately feel others are bad.