It is everyone’s first impulse to say “begone” to those who get in the way.

Your older brother wishes you dead as soon as you push him away from your toy, just as your first take on younger brother is “better never to have been born.”  We all toddle like Able, think like Cain.

But this first solution–kill people who cause you trouble–would profit from some iteration.

The strong man tends to look ridiculous, not just with his mustache, or naked on his horse, or with his orange hair, but because he pushes the first solution as if it might be final.

We’ve seen this act before.  We know what happens when creepiness and certitude come together in high office without restraint.

To get an individual to “begone” without guilt and confusion, without birthing some inner devil you need to repress is one kind of problem.  Call it Freudian, label it evil’s manufacture.  Another kind of problem is the logistics of the killing itself, whether you would kill your brother or some sect and their friends, you’ll need to do some handiwork: Get good with a knife, get mom and dad to sign off, build factories well suited to burn people up.

The injustice of siblings, the outrage of imperfect parental love, the absurdities of infantile need–impulse is enough to promote homicidal thoughts in any child.

Slavery is not a private solution, not born in impulse.  so much as it is a business plan. Slavery takes more time to pull off, requires an everyday reaffirmation that this is the business you want to be in, pounds impulse–hey, maybe all those folks should work for me for free–into practice.   Slavery is a commitment.