I know this won't be popular, but; it is the MENTAL ILLNESS.

[freshwest]

90. What about war zones? It may not be cold blood, but close. People are targets, it's all strategy.

Who has the ground, etc. When an armed group working for a timber company goes and kills the natives in a forest to cut the trees down, they think they are doing a good thing and once the deed is done, it's over.

When Europeans came to the Americas to take over, and shot the natives, it was considered a good thing. When the natives killed each other over territory, they thought it was a good thing. Some made treaties.

I don't think I'm arguing with your point, I think the entire human race is mentally ill and has been for a long time. We just give it different names in different situations. In the Zimmerman case, he could have stayed in his car, and avoided it by following a few basic rules. Treaties and trade are rules that govern the way that people get what they need from each other when not having all out warfare, but the war on each other and the planet never ends.

You may be speaking of just this one incident, but if we want to go to the impulse that leads to taking another's life I think there may be a generic way of defining it. Or at least I am seeking that definition. Any ideas?