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8th November 2025, 18:43
They Used To Hang Horse Thieves
How Moral Code Follows Human Need
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by Kevin Boykin
11/08/2025
They used to hang horse thieves. Not because men were barbaric, but because a horse was life itself on the frontier — transport, livelihood, and escape. There wasn’t a Starbucks on every corner, and even if there were, the battle through the manzanita and rocky terrain would require a preemptive double-shot frappe. To steal a horse was to strand a man in the unforgiving wilderness; it was potentially a death sentence, and the available selection of executioners were each unpalatable. The gallows were not cruelty; they were a necessity, our familiar matron of invention, and here an altered moral code was invented.
In the way that universal forces demand the golden ratio, social and environmental pressures dictate the designs of mankind. When survival tightens its grip, law follows suit. Grain theft in medieval Europe demanded a death sentence, not because bread was holy, but because hunger was a force no ruler could afford to offend. In seafaring empires, mutiny was punished by hanging or keelhauling because a single act of defiance could send a whole crew to the bottom. Even faith at times followed the same survival pattern: to reject the state religion was, in their eyes, to threaten social cohesion itself.
In Rio’s favelas and other lower-income areas of Central and South America where starvation and chaos still rule, thieves are beaten or burned to death while cameras roll. The act horrifies modern conscience, yet it echoes the frontier. When institutions collapse, when they fail to mete out an acceptable level of justice, eventually morality devolves to its root form: deterrence by terror. Justice becomes local, improvised, and brutal — but it functions.
And this, uncomfortable as it is, reveals the truth: moral codes are not fixed; they are adaptive technologies. The globalists understand this better than anyone. They’ve learned to shift their ethics laterally, bending concepts of good and evil to match whatever ensures control — one of their controls being how their intended victims think collectively. Consequently, the rest of the world, still clutching inherited moralities like relics, refuses or is unable to adapt — mistaking politeness for virtue, fragility for goodness, people-pleasing for acceptance, and failing to recognize that they need their moral code to include their survival.
The only real survival now lies in evolution of a different kind — not moral surrender, but moral defense. Hard decisions need to be made; those with weak stomachs need to excuse themselves, and sleeves need to be rolled up. We are speaking of the survival and personal sovereignty of the human race. The very idea of the word crime seems to lose its meaning in the context of defense of life, coming off like a slap in the face with its absurdity. The crimes of the other side have already been committed; it’s only the meting of justice that remains — the breaking of their control to allow for the clarity and courage necessary for success.
https://kasspert.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/they-used-to-hang-horse-thieves/
How Moral Code Follows Human Need
https://kasspert.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/hangmantemplates2.jpg
by Kevin Boykin
11/08/2025
They used to hang horse thieves. Not because men were barbaric, but because a horse was life itself on the frontier — transport, livelihood, and escape. There wasn’t a Starbucks on every corner, and even if there were, the battle through the manzanita and rocky terrain would require a preemptive double-shot frappe. To steal a horse was to strand a man in the unforgiving wilderness; it was potentially a death sentence, and the available selection of executioners were each unpalatable. The gallows were not cruelty; they were a necessity, our familiar matron of invention, and here an altered moral code was invented.
In the way that universal forces demand the golden ratio, social and environmental pressures dictate the designs of mankind. When survival tightens its grip, law follows suit. Grain theft in medieval Europe demanded a death sentence, not because bread was holy, but because hunger was a force no ruler could afford to offend. In seafaring empires, mutiny was punished by hanging or keelhauling because a single act of defiance could send a whole crew to the bottom. Even faith at times followed the same survival pattern: to reject the state religion was, in their eyes, to threaten social cohesion itself.
In Rio’s favelas and other lower-income areas of Central and South America where starvation and chaos still rule, thieves are beaten or burned to death while cameras roll. The act horrifies modern conscience, yet it echoes the frontier. When institutions collapse, when they fail to mete out an acceptable level of justice, eventually morality devolves to its root form: deterrence by terror. Justice becomes local, improvised, and brutal — but it functions.
And this, uncomfortable as it is, reveals the truth: moral codes are not fixed; they are adaptive technologies. The globalists understand this better than anyone. They’ve learned to shift their ethics laterally, bending concepts of good and evil to match whatever ensures control — one of their controls being how their intended victims think collectively. Consequently, the rest of the world, still clutching inherited moralities like relics, refuses or is unable to adapt — mistaking politeness for virtue, fragility for goodness, people-pleasing for acceptance, and failing to recognize that they need their moral code to include their survival.
The only real survival now lies in evolution of a different kind — not moral surrender, but moral defense. Hard decisions need to be made; those with weak stomachs need to excuse themselves, and sleeves need to be rolled up. We are speaking of the survival and personal sovereignty of the human race. The very idea of the word crime seems to lose its meaning in the context of defense of life, coming off like a slap in the face with its absurdity. The crimes of the other side have already been committed; it’s only the meting of justice that remains — the breaking of their control to allow for the clarity and courage necessary for success.
https://kasspert.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/they-used-to-hang-horse-thieves/