09-03-2016, 09:11 AM
How can you call killing an unarmed guy with his hand up "justified" - as the Sheriff seems to have done - simply because the guy's taunting them? Is "taunting" now an executable offence in the US? Whatever happened to taking surrendered people into custody?
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14