SelfPub: When the world is drowning in meaninglessness, ...

When the world is drowning in meaninglessness, from which your own and someone else's life loses its significance, murder does not seem like a monstrous act. It acquires mundane features, is covered with a touch of permissibility, and sometimes disguises itself as a debt of retribution. Having devalued life, disenchanted with the meaning of being, drowning in the abyss of hopelessness, it is so easy to pull the trigger, aiming the barrel of a pistol at someone else or at yourself.