PEACE CHILD: Blog post no. 6: What concepts in the Sawi culture intrigued / reviled / saddened / angered / surprised you?

The Sawi culture is based on treachery, betrayal and ‘fattening with friendship’. Pride is taken in killing and hurting a person. A person’s standing in society is based on the amount of living beings he has killed and how much he made them suffer. Parts of the human body are kept as trophies to remember how one killed them. How to betray and murder are tales told to the children. It did not sadden me as in this world as well there are things that have taken place, might be taking place and might take place in the future almost just like this.

I thought that it was weird how they were so open about it and it was considered normal and a basis on which respect was shown. I have heard of tribes that practiced cannibalism and people that were like that. I have read of serial killers who take parts of their victims bodies and that is just scary. Just for this post I thought that I would put some examples of them but then I went to get the name of one and I found more than one that in itself is just scary.
Jeffery Dahmer - killed and dismembered Sinthasomphone(his victim), keeping his skull as a souvenir.
Richard Chase - He was nicknamed "The Vampire of Sacramento" because he drank his victims' blood and cannibalized their remains.
Lam Kor-wan - "The Jars Murderer", was coined when the police revealed that he had hoarded sexual organs in tupperware containers in his Tsim Sha Tsui bedroom on Kwei Chau
Dennis Nilsen – kept bin bags full of human organs stored in his wardrobe
Alfred G. "Alferd" Packer - an American prospector who was convicted of cannibalism

That is just because in the world I have been brought up and heard about betrayal, treachery, murder, making people suffer and those kinds of things do happen but it is not see as something to respect it is despised along with the people that did/do it.
Example: William Patrick Hitler the nephew of Hitler. His sons are childless and they have taken a pact to bring their part of Adolf Hitler's bloodline to an end.
They shows that they disliked their own fore father.

Ones thoughts about things change from the perspective it is seen from.
I have seen people making ‘friends’ with people just to insult and let them down them in front of others. People who claim to be friends but behind your back they let you down. Girls who start flirting with the boy you like only because they know that you like them. People who aim for something that they do not care about, the only reasons they are aiming for it being the fact that you really want it. People who claim to have an open mind to the world saying that they accept you as you are but then they make fun of things that you consider important and they try to turn you into themselves. People who claim to be your good friends but they take ever opportunity to insult and they make themselves feel better by insulting you. There are other worse examples but these are ones that tend to happen quite often in normal daily life. Is that not betrayal and getting pleasure out of someone else’s sadness? The Sawi take that to a whole other level. That was not saddening but disgusting and a bit scary. I find it very difficult to make friends with people as I am not good with socializing and I would rather not have any friends than go out of my way to get friends who might just turn around and hurt me. After feeling comfortable around someone and trusting them to have your trust broken is something really bad. Hence, I was disgusted when I read about the ‘fatten with friendship’ concept. In cases like that it is better not to have any friends and be a loner. The best friend on this earth that you can have is yourself.