The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.
When something horrible is done to you, the natural impulse is to strike back.
There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
I think part of being human is learning to roll with the punches, to deal with any kind of personal or professional disaster that might crop up. You have to learn to deal with that stuff or not survive.
Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
I do feel I'm being respectful to Buddhism and martial arts with 'Mortal Kombat.'